At the time of Leninism, the government had to be overturned --- the trade unions were economists, traitors --- power had to go to
the Soviets: in short, there was an idea, there was something. But
here, really, there is no idea. There's nothing at all. There's the idea
of macroeconomics, of a certain number of factors: unemployment, the market, money, all abstractions that have nothing at all
to do with social reality. --- Félix Guattari,
"Crise de production de subjectivité,"
Seminar of April 3, 1984
As quoted in Signs and Machines:
Capitalism and the Production of Subjectivity
Maurizio Lazzarato
Joshua David Jordan, translator
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