Gilles Deleuze on Fascism, Ideology and the Resistance of Life

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“Why do men fight for their servitude as stubbornly as though it were their salvation? How can people possibly reach the point of shouting: More taxes! Less bread! ?”

According to Deleuze and Guattari, this is the fundamental question of political philosophy. At the same time, it is the central problem of any theory of fascism.

Anti-Oedipus and A Thousand Plateaus can be understood as answers to this problem. Both volumes attempt to show that fascism is not just an economic and political phenomenon, but also a phenomenon of desire – a desire that attempts to suicide itself. The masses are not simply “tricked by an ideological lure”. At the same time and above all, fascism subjects their desire to a tremendous „perversion", and it is precisely this “molecular or micropolitical power“ that makes it so dangerous. This is the rather topical insight that Deleuze discusses here at length…

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Incredible. Simply incredible. Gilles Deleuze has been reanimated!!

givepeaceachance

I love hearing Deleuze brreaaatheee! I'm so glad y'all didn't edit that out!

JohnQPublix

It would be cool to see a debate between a Lukács puppet and a Deleuze puppet on Nietzsche and fascism!!

corrupted

Super interesting video! Always enjoy watching your channel 😌

theloveistheoretical

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niclasneziru

I admit I might have misunderstood what was said here. However it seems the claim is very simple: each individual has a strong death drive which is the corner stone of fascist regimes. As a resident in a fascist society, this claim seems to be a far fetched and groundless. Had he provided any evidence for this to be so? I see fascists around me and hadn’t sensed them to want to die. What I sense is that they are in need of being able to understanding the world, and the fascist explanation of the world is much clearer for people who lack education in social sciences than other explanations. In particular, it is much easier than the Marxist vision of the world. Also, they seem to believe that eventually they can get away with their fascism. So, they ARE dupes.

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