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# Accelerationism
Accelerationism is reactionary belief system that proposes that processes like capitalist growth and technological change should be drastically intensified or "accelerated" as a mechanism to effect radical social change.
Accelerationism is a reactionary belief system that proposes that processes like capitalist growth and technological change should be drastically intensified or "accelerated" as a mechanism to effect radical social change.
The notion coincides with crypto advocacy as some believe that an acceleration to a variant of [capitalism](capitalism.md) with no regulation, caveat emptor investments, and extreme financialization of all aspects of human life as a means to accelerate the collapse of capitalism itself or to build a new financial system like a phoenix from the ashes of the old one.
## References
1. Husain, Syed Omer, Alex Franklin, and Dirk Roep. 2020. The Political Imaginaries of Blockchain Projects: Discerning the Expressions of an Emerging Ecosystem. Sustainability Science 15 (2): 37994. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-020-00786-x.
1. Hussain, Syed Omer. 2020. Prefigurative Post-Politics as Strategy: The Case of Government-Led Blockchain Projects. The Journal of The British Blockchain Association 3 (1): 111. https://doi.org/10.31585/jbba-3-1-(2)2020.
1. Hussain, Syed Omer. 2020. Prefigurative Post-Politics as Strategy: The Case of Government-Led Blockchain Projects. The Journal of The British Blockchain Association 3 (1): 111. https://doi.org/10.31585/jbba-3-1-(2)2020.