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Historical Materialism , volume 13:3 (35–55) © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2005 Also available online – www.brill.nl 1 A shorter version of this essay was published in Lecercle 2003. Jean-Jacques Lecercle Deleuze, Guattari and Marxism Opening The Marxist who opens Anti-Oedipus and reads the celebrated first lines finds himself in a strange universe, one that is entirely foreign to him. 1 To be sure, ‘it [ ça ]’ works, but ‘it’ also eats, shits and fucks. Such activities are not unknown to the Marxist, but neither are they activities that his pet theories usually account for. However, if he goes beyond the first feeling of surprise, and reads on, familiar features will soon emerge: this ‘it’ that shits and fucks is also engaged in production. Indeed ‘it’ is a machine, an assemblage of machines. And, before he reaches the opening lines, our Marxist has crossed two thresholds: the title of the first section, ‘Desiring Production’, and the title of the whole opus, of which Anti-Oedipus is the first volume: Capitalism and Schizophrenia . This is where the Marxist who attempts to read Deleuze and Guattari has a problem: he is threatened with a form of schizophrenia, inscribed in
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Published: Jan 1, 2005
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