You didn’t discuss the most important type of assemblage, the machine, which structures production by coupling desire with matter and operates by encoding flows within a regime of signs, thus limiting the agency of its components. Capitalism, therefore, represents the subordination of all traditional-despotic codes to a single universal axiom, that of private property and the representation of value in exchange, bringing all social forces into quantitative relations with one another. Capital accumulation radically uproots the technical and social machines of premodern society, but according to Deleuze, deterritorialization is always simultaneously reterritorialization, which is where the deterritorializing effects of capital confront the limits of a social axiom which necessitates the enclosure of value and access for the sake of preserving capital’s need to constantly expand, which can be seen in the forces of anti-production, artificial scarcity, etc. I think Deleuze would suggest that a truly libertarian politics must today orient itself toward the liberation of desiring-production from the immobility of capital, and find new distributed social relations and assemblages that produce value which is no longer subordinated to the need for profit.
How is a doctrine like “the Withering Away of the State” explicitly statist? Marx was an early theoretician of Anarcho-Communism, not an opponent. He merely foresaw that an immediate transition into statelessness was doomed to failure, for the same reason Peasant Republics like Dithmarschen devolved into Feudalism and the Paris Commune fell to the Monarchy: stateless societies cannot compete with states on a military field. This is why the USSR devolved into Siege Socialism, when faced with the hostility of an Imperial Superpower, you must develop your own capacity as a superpower. But in the USSR’s case, as a developing country, the necessity of the development of their military capacity handicapped their development of civilian goods and eventually led to their fall. Meanwhile China’s Deng Xiaoping allowed for the exploitation of his citizens labor as a way to develop China’s industrial capacity and simultaneously reaching a tenuous peace with the west that is only now breaking down after the fall of the USSR.
personally with milei we may not know if he's not getting rid of the state either bc he doesn't want to get rid of it or he's pressured by entrenched elites
Always been sceptical of Deleuze since getting into Heraclitus. He’s too close with Marxism and anti-hierarchical stuff for my liking. Still enjoyed the vid, though 👌
To be fair, I’m also not fond of how he still played nice with Marx in spite of rejecting the core tenets of Marxist philosophy. Glad you enjoyed the video.
@@user98344 No? Heraclitus argued most people were too stupid (which he definitely had a point there) and believed in Aristocracy and Monarchy on those grounds, and he had other arguments too for that.
You didn’t discuss the most important type of assemblage, the machine, which structures production by coupling desire with matter and operates by encoding flows within a regime of signs, thus limiting the agency of its components. Capitalism, therefore, represents the subordination of all traditional-despotic codes to a single universal axiom, that of private property and the representation of value in exchange, bringing all social forces into quantitative relations with one another. Capital accumulation radically uproots the technical and social machines of premodern society, but according to Deleuze, deterritorialization is always simultaneously reterritorialization, which is where the deterritorializing effects of capital confront the limits of a social axiom which necessitates the enclosure of value and access for the sake of preserving capital’s need to constantly expand, which can be seen in the forces of anti-production, artificial scarcity, etc. I think Deleuze would suggest that a truly libertarian politics must today orient itself toward the liberation of desiring-production from the immobility of capital, and find new distributed social relations and assemblages that produce value which is no longer subordinated to the need for profit.
How is a doctrine like “the Withering Away of the State” explicitly statist? Marx was an early theoretician of Anarcho-Communism, not an opponent. He merely foresaw that an immediate transition into statelessness was doomed to failure, for the same reason Peasant Republics like Dithmarschen devolved into Feudalism and the Paris Commune fell to the Monarchy: stateless societies cannot compete with states on a military field. This is why the USSR devolved into Siege Socialism, when faced with the hostility of an Imperial Superpower, you must develop your own capacity as a superpower. But in the USSR’s case, as a developing country, the necessity of the development of their military capacity handicapped their development of civilian goods and eventually led to their fall. Meanwhile China’s Deng Xiaoping allowed for the exploitation of his citizens labor as a way to develop China’s industrial capacity and simultaneously reaching a tenuous peace with the west that is only now breaking down after the fall of the USSR.
Cospaia both predated and outlived the USSR without even having a army.
Stateless peoples have routinely ruined empires many times throughout history.
personally with milei we may not know if he's not getting rid of the state either bc he doesn't want to get rid of it or he's pressured by entrenched elites
Always been sceptical of Deleuze since getting into Heraclitus. He’s too close with Marxism and anti-hierarchical stuff for my liking. Still enjoyed the vid, though 👌
To be fair, I’m also not fond of how he still played nice with Marx in spite of rejecting the core tenets of Marxist philosophy. Glad you enjoyed the video.
Yo, another Heraclitean :)
Wasn't Heraclitus also kinda anti-hierarchical?
@@user98344 No? Heraclitus argued most people were too stupid (which he definitely had a point there) and believed in Aristocracy and Monarchy on those grounds, and he had other arguments too for that.
@@t.d.mcintosh I didn't read his politics.... I should read more before calling myself an "-ean" lol