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A leftist government doesn’t exist because being on the left has nothing to do with governments.

Gilles Deleuze

The fundamental problem of political philosophy is still precisely the one that Spinoza saw so clearly (and that Wilhelm Reich rediscovered): Why do men fight for their servitude as stubbornly as though it were their salvation?
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Discover Fundamental Philosophy Politics Problem Salvation Stubborn
A leftist government doesn’t exist because being on the left has nothing to do with governments.
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Existence Government
Something in the world forces us to think. This something is an object not of recognition but of a fundamental encounter.
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Encounter Force Fundamental Recognition Thinking World
A tyrant institutionalises stupidity, but he is the first servant of his own system and the first to be installed within it.
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Install Institution Servant Stupidity System
Write, form a rhizome, increase your territory by deterritorialization, extend the line of flight to the point where it becomes an abstract machine covering the entire plane of consistency.
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Consistency Machine Point Territory Writing
As for being responsible or irresponsible, we don’t recognize those notions, they’re for policemen and courtroom psychiatrists.
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Court Notion Recognition Responsibility Room
Psychoanalysts are bent on producing man abstractly, that is to say ideologically, for culture. It is Oedipus who produces man in this fashion and who gives a structure to the false movement of infinite progression and regression.
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Abstract Man Movement Production Progression
The percept is the landscape before man, in the absence of man.
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Absence Landscape Man Perception
The instinct of revenge is the force which constitutes the essence of what we call psychology, history, metaphysics and morality. The spirit of revenge is the genealogical element of our thought, the transcendental principle of our way of thinking.
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Element Force History Moral Ourselves Principle Revenge Thinking
An image of thought called philosophy has been formed historically and it effectively stops people from thinking.
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Form History Image People Philosophy Stop Thinking
Philosophy, art, and science are not the mental objects of an objectified brain but the three aspects under which the brain becomes subject.
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Art Aspect Brain Philosophy Science Subject
Every time someone puts an objection to me, I want to say: ‘OK, OK, let’s go on to something else.’ Objections have never contributed anything.
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Contribution Myself Objection Time
Can you harness the power of drugs without them taking over, without turning into a dazed zombie?
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Drugs Ghost Power Turn
Is it not first through the voice that one becomes animal?
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Animal Oneself Voice
A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.
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Brick Build Concept Ideas Reason Window
Nietzsche’s break with Schopenhauer rests on precisely this point; it is a matter of knowing whether the will is unitary or multiple.
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Break Multiple Point Willing

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