The intellectual history and genealogy of accelerationism must look beyond the contingencies of its present expressions.

The intellectual history and genealogy of accelerationism must look beyond the contingencies of its present expressions. It must include more than an explication of a line of thought’s trajectory. Hence, a genealogy must be informed by the ongoing contested reformation of its signification, and by the wider poststructuralist debates that have their roots in accelerationism’s history and in the earlier conversations with McLuhan and postmodernism, and by the conceptual variation associated with the more recent materialisms and postmodernisms. While the historical emergence of accelerationism cannot be directlyGPT. "Talk to Transformer – InferKit". https://app.inferkit.com/demo While the historical emergence of accelerationism cannot be directly traced to Marx, most if not all analysts, including those that originally conceived of it, define it in terms of the political economy of Capital. Especially since the publication of the Manifesto and of the Critique of the Gotha Program, the collectivized capitalism of Marx had become the dominant framework of social thought. It was not that Marx did not criticize the bourgeoisie, but that he focused his critique on that form of the exploitative mode of production most harmful to the working 
It was not that Marx did not criticize the bourgeoisie, but that he focused his critique on that form of the exploitative mode of production most harmful to the working class. Capitalism generates the vast masses of the proletariat through exploitation and violence. The proletariat, in the dialectical logic of Marx’s critique, is the “proletariat” in which the working class itself is the “class that produces itself”, in which the class of the exploited workers is the “proletariat of exploiters”. The bourgeoisie of the nineteenth century, with their unions, unions with unity in action, unions of all against the bosses, unions fighting for the right to unionize