Chaosophy - autonomous learning

the other hand nothing allows one to think of the passage from
savagery to barbarism. There is nothing in territorial machines
(primitive societies) that would allow one to say that it anticipates
what will come after: no caste system, no class system, no exploitation,
not even work (if work, by essence, is alienated). So where
does History, class struggle, deterritorialization, etc., come from
Deleuze and Guattari answer this question, for they do know
what to make of the Savages. And their answer is, in my view, the
most vigorous, most rigorous discovery in Anti-Oedipus: it concerns
the theory of the "Urstaat," the cold monster, the nightmare, the
state, which is the same everywhere and "which has always existed."
Yes, the state exists in primitive societies, even in the tiniest band of
nomad-hunters. It exists, but it is constantly being warded off, it is
constantly being prevented from becoming a reality. A primitive
society is a society that devotes all its efforts to preventing the chief
from becoming a chief (and that can go as far as murder). If history
is the history of class struggles (in societies where there are classes, of
course) then one can say that the history of classless societies is the
history of their struggle against the latent state, it's the history of their
effort to encode the flux of power.
Certainly, Anti-Oedipus does not tell us why the primitive
machine has, here or there, failed to encode the flux of power, this
death which keeps rising from within. There is indeed not the
slightest reason for a tribe to let its chief act the chief (we could
demonstrate this through ethnographic examples). So where does
the Urstaat so completely and suddenly come from It comes from
the outside, necessarily, and one might hope that the follow-up to
Anti-Oedipus will tell us more about this.
Encoding, overcoding, decoding and flux: these categories
establish the theory of society, whereas the idea of Urstaat, whether
warded off or triumphant, establishes the theory of History. This is
radically new thought, a revolutionary way of thinking.
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