Even the most repressive and the most deadly forms of social reproduction are produced by desire within the organization that is the consequence of such production under various conditions that we must analyze. That is why 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?" How can people possibly reach the point of shouting: "More taxes! Less bread!"? As Reich remarks, the astonishing thing is not that some people steal or that others occasionally go out on strike, but rather that all those who are starving do not steal as a regular practice, and all those who are exploited are not continually out on strike: after centuries of exploitation, why do people still tolerate being humiliated and enslaved, to such a point, indeed, that they ACTUALLY WANT humiliation and slavery not only for others but for themselves?...No, the masses were not innocent dupes; at a certain point, under a certain set of conditions, they WANTED fascism, and it is this perversion of the desires of the masses that needs to be accounted for. From _Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia_
— Gilles Deleuze and Fèlix Guattari
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