Marx saw capitalism as an unprecedented historical acceleration driven endogenously

Evidence

So in Marx’s analysis of history and capitalism the modernization process does indeed appear to be an acceleration process, one in which two distinct principles of acceleration can be analytically distinguished. In the first place, as is well known, Marx defends a dynamic understanding of history according to which historical development transpires on the basis of a dialectical interplay between the forces of production that continually further unfold and the relations of production that alter in a corresponding fashion (i.e., at one moment favoring the development of the forces of production, in the next moment hindering it and then being revolutionized). Insofar as factors that are endogenous to capitalism drive this process forward, it accelerates the development of the unfolding productive forces, and hence ultimately the progress of history, in a historically unprecedented way: “The bourgeoisie, during its rule of scarce one hundred years, has created more massive and more colossal productive forces than have all preceding generations together. — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration, 192