Chaosophy - autonomous learning

Pierre Rose: To me, what proves the practical importance of
Deleuze and Guattari's book is that it challenges the virtue of commentary.
It is a book that wages war. It concerns the situation of
the working classes and Power. The angle is the critique of the
analytical institution, but the question is not reduced to that.
"The unconscious is the political," Lacan said in '67. Analysis
made its claim to universality through that. It is when it gets close
to the political that it legitimates oppression most blatantly. It is
the trick by which the subversion of the Subject who allegedly
knows, turns into submission in the face of a new transcendental
trinity of Law, Signifier, Castration: "Death is the life of the Spirit,
what use is there in rebelling" The question of Power was erased
by the conservative irony of tightest Hegelianism which undermines
the question of the unconscious, from Kojeve to Lacan.
This legacy, at least, had high standards. We're also done with
the more sordid tradition of the theory of ideologies, which has
haunted Marxist theory since the Second International, that is,
since Jules Guesde's thought crushed Fourier's thought.
What the Marxists did not manage to break down was the
theory of reflection, or what has been done with it. Yet the Leninist
metaphor of the "little screw" in the "big machine" is radiant: the
overthrow of Power in people's minds is a transformation that is
produced in all the cogs and wheels of the social machine.
The way in which the Maoist concept of "ideological revolution"
breaks with the mechanistic opposition of ideology and the
politicoeconomic sweeps aside the reduction of desire to the
"political" (Parliament and party struggles) and politics to the
speeches (of the leader) in order to restore the reality of multiple
wars on multiple fronts. This method is the only one to come near
to the critique of the state in Anti-Oedipus. It is impossible for a
critical work that starts with Anti-Oedipus to become a university
operation, a lucrative activity for the whirling dervishes of Being
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