here's the full quote for anyone curious.
its from The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State
i'm planning on publishing something on Autonomy (as a principle of self-organization) and i'm pulling a lot from the italian-variant of Autonomists. in particular i'm pulling from the book Autonomia: Post-Political Politics and there's this one section, which is kind of unnerving, that i just still don't quite get
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- Deleuze and Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus, Becoming-Animal
https://anarch.cc/uploads/deleuze-guattari/a-thousand-plateaus.pdf
one landed on my roof while i was sitting outside and cawed at me a few times, and then it and two others flew into the yard and one of them mounted the other and they made a very unique noise while fluttering tails a lot
“The growing proletarianization of modern man and the increasing formation of masses are two aspects of the same process. Fascism attempts to organize the newly created proletarian masses without affecting the property structure which the masses strive to eliminate. Fascism sees its salvation in giving these masses not their right, but instead a chance to express themselves. The masses have a right to change property relations; Fascism seeks to give them an expression while preserving property. The logical result of Fascism is the introduction of aesthetics into political life. The violation of the masses, whom Fascism, with its Führer cult, forces to their knees, has its
counterpart in the violation of an apparatus which is pressed into the production of ritual values. All efforts to render politics aesthetic culminate in one thing: war.”
—Walter Benjamin, “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction”
the imperial-civilizing machine with (de)humanization as its motor will be destroyed or We will be destroyed
not "slightly different concept of what it means to be human" but "completely emptied of power" abolition and destitution
A wandering deer, building shrines along the way.