However, it is important to recognise that the potentialities recognised by Deleuze, and Guattari also have a malignant side. One of the salutary aspects of these authors’ work is that they take seriously the possibility of a postmodern fascism, in which the very communicational and nomadic capacities so rich in anti-capitalist possibilities are recuperated in appallingly destructive form. Guattari and Deleuze have always emphasised that molecular rebellions can turn negative, becoming paranoid or suicidal, and they have taken conventional Marxisms to task for their failure to recognise the unconscious and preconscious paths in which longings for emancipation and freedom become twisted into racist, sexist and homophobic hatreds and authoritarian dependencies. Like Baudrillard, they speak of “black holes”—in this case, meaning the turning inwards of revolutionary
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aspirations toward internecine hostility.106 In this perverted form, they become available to capitalism as a weapon against movements of autonomy, providing the basis for fascism — “without doubt capitalism’s most fantastic attempt at economic and political reterritorialisation.”
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