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say!" That ends up irritating serious people, the responsible militants.
So we are certainly not going to recommend that desire be taken seriously.
It is rather urgent to undermine the spirit of seriousness. A
theory of desire in history should not strive to be serious. And, from
this point of view, perhaps Anti-Oedipus is still too serious a book,
too intimidating. Theoretical work shouldn't be reserved for specialists.
A theory's desire and its statements should stick as closely as possible
to the event and to the collective enunciation of the masses. In order
to come to that, it will be necessary to forge another breed of
intellectuals, another breed of analysts, another breed of militants,
with the different types blending and melting into each other.
We started with the idea that one should not consider desire as
a subjective superstructure which phases in and out. Desire never
stops shaping history, even in its worst periods. The German masses
had come to desire Nazism. After Wilhelm Reich, one cannot avoid
facing that truth. Under certain conditions, the desire of the masses
can turn against their own interests. What are those conditions
That's the whole question.
In order to answer that, we realized that one cannot simply
attach a Freudian wagon to the Marxist-Leninist train. First one
must get rid of a stereotyped hierarchy between an opaque economic
infrastructure and social and ideological superstructures conceived of
in such a way that they repress questions of sex and expression on the
side of representation, as far away as possible from production. The
relations of production and the relations of reproduction participate
in the same pairing of productive forces and antiproductive
structures. We should move desire on the side of the infrastructure,
on the side of production, and the family, the ego and the person on
the side of antiproduction. This is the only way to prevent the
sexual from remaining permanently cut off from the economic.
There exists, according to us, a desiring-production which,
before all actualization in the familial division of sexes and persons
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