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‘ Tja, er stromen berichten binnen van de jongelui die het “nogal cryptisch” blijven vinden. Makkelijker kunnen we het helaas niet maken.’
- ‘Misschien nog een klein beetje leuker – als Vincent (van Gogh) tenminste de weg naar zijn oor kan vinden en zich niet door Gogol bij de neus laat nemen ….’
‘ Laat ze nog maar even puzzelen. Guattari is inderdaad geen zacht eitje, maar we hebben hints genoeg gegeven.’
- ‘Me dunkt: richting het ravijn en de ratsmodee, wie heeft dáár vandaag de dag nou geen oren naar?’
‘ Deze kwam net binnen en ze zegt dat ze zich moe gepuzzeld heeft en …. op een oor gaat liggen. Morgen is er weer een dag. Ze vroeg zich af of Hajo’s cartoon misschien als oorverdovend was bedoeld? De huidige politici praten enkel voor dovemans oren, vindt ze.’
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Geredigeerd citaat uit Félix Guattari (1984; reprint) ISBN 0 14 055 160 3.
Unlike fascism, capitalist totalitarian machines, while capturing the workers’ desire energy, also set out to divide them, to privatize and molecularize them. These machines worm their way in among them, into their families, their marriages, their children, becoming ensconced at the very centre of their subjectivity and their ,view of the world. Capitalism is afraid of great mass movements. It seeks the support of automatic control systems, and it is that role which is played by the State and by all the various modes of ‘social contract’. Should a conflict break out of certain accepted frameworks, it endeavours to contain it as purely an economic, or just a local, war.
Lacking models that have been tried and tested, and given the unsuitability of the old formulae – of fascism, Stalinism and perhaps even social democracy – capitalism has to seek within itself for new formulae of totalitarianism. Unless and until it finds them, it will be at the mercy of movements on all kinds of fronts that it cannot foresee (wildcat strikes, campaigns for selfmanagement, the struggles of immigrants or racial minorities, subversion in schools, prisons or mental hospitals, the battle for sexual freedom and so on).
This new situation, when there are no longer great homogeneous social blocs whose activity can easily be channelled towards purely economic aims, will naturally evoke a more varied and intense backlash of repressive responses.
All over the world the totalitarian machine is experimenting to find the structures best suited to the situation, in other words, best fitted to capture desire and harness it to the profit economy.
Once and for all we must refuse to be taken in by such slogans as ‘Fascism will not happen again’ – it already has happened, and is still happening. It infiltrates through even our most intricate defences, and continues to change and develop. It appears to come from outside, but its energy comes from the core of desire within each one of us. In apparently tranquil situations, disaster can strike from one day to the next. Fascism, like desire, is disseminated in fragments throughout the social spectrum; the form it takes in any one place will depend on the prevailing relations of power. It can be simultaneously described as super-powerful and laughably weak.
In the final analysis, everything depends on the capacity of groups of human beings to become the protagonists of history, in other words to govern the material and social forces at all levels that lead to a desire to live and to change the world.
Félix Guattari: Molecular Revolution: Psychiatry and Politics. Ch.: The Micro-Politics of Fascism Isbnsearch.org/isbn/0140551603