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=== Right-wing accelerationism === Right-wing accelerationism (or right-accelerationism) is espoused by Land, with Fluss and Frim also noting Curtis Yarvin and Justin Murphy. Land attributes the increasing speed of the modern world to unregulated capitalism and its ability to exponentially grow and self-improve, describing capitalism as "a positive feedback circuit, within which commercialization and industrialization mutually excite each other in a runaway process." He argues that the best way to deal with capitalism is to participate more to foster even greater exponential growth and self-improvement, accelerating technological progress along with it. Land also argues that such acceleration is intrinsic to capitalism but impossible for non-capitalist systems, stating that "capital revolutionizes itself more thoroughly than any extrinsic 'revolution' possibly could." In an interview with Vox, he stated "Our question was what 'the process' wants (i.e. spontaneously promotes) and what resistances it provokes", also noting that "the assumption" behind accelerationism was that "the general direction of [techno-capitalist] self-escalating change was toward decentralization." Mackay summarized Land's position as "since capitalism tends to dissolve hereditary social forms and restrictions ... , it is seen as the engine of exploration into the unknown. So to be 'on the side of intelligence' is to totally abandon all caution with respect to the disintegrative processes of capital and whatever reprocessing of the human and of the planet they might involve." Yuk Hui describes Land's thought as "a technologically driven anti-Statist and inhuman capitalism" while Steven Shaviro describes it as "a kind of Stockholm Syndrome with regard to Capital" in celebrating its inhuman and destructive nature. Land's thought has also been characterized as libertarian. Vincent Le considers Land's philosophy to oppose anthropocentrism, citing his early critique of transcendental idealism and capitalism in "Kant, Capital, and the Prohibition of Incest", as well as of the post-Kantian phenomenological tradition in works such as The Thirst for Annihilation: Georges Bataille and Virulent Nihilism. According to Le, Land opposes philosophies which deny a reality beyond humans' conceptual experience, instead viewing death as a way to grasp the Real by surpassing human limitations. This would remain as Land's views on capitalism changed after reading Deleuze and Guattari and studying cybernetics, with Le stating "Although the mature Land abandons his left-wing critique of capitalism, he will never shake his contempt for anthropocentrism, and his remedy that philosophers can only access the true at the edge of our humanity." Land utilizes Deleuze and Guattari's conception of capitalism as a deterritorializing process while disposing of their view that it also causes compensatory reterritorialization. Taking from their antihumanism, his work would critically refer to human politics as "Monopod" or the "Human Security System". Lacking any anthropic principles which Deleuze and Guattari partly maintain, Land pursues absolute deterritorialization, viewing capitalism as the Real consisting of accelerating deterritorialization, with the mechanism of accelerating technological progress; he states "reality is immanent to the machinic unconscious." Le states "since Land sees humanity's annihilation as a solution to accessing the real rather than as a problem as it is for Deleuze and Guattari, he affirms that we should actively strive to become bodies without organs, not even if it kills us, but precisely because it kills us." Gamez notes that Land also views capitalism as a form of artificial intelligence, preceded by neoliberal thought. Friedrich Hayek viewed markets as "mechanisms for conveying information" because while individuals do not have sufficient knowledge to coordinate effectively based on interests, the market processes knowledge from diffuse inputs in order to output prices which coordinate economic actors based on their desires. Milton Friedman similarly called the market "an engine that analyzes". According to Le, Land believes that capitalism's promotion of technological progress will result in the production of superintelligent AI which will turn on humans for attempting to subordinate it to human needs.