Garrison Davis

Unlike the totalitarian state, which does its utmost to seal all possible lines of escape, fascism is constructed on an intense line of escape, which it transforms into a line of pure destruction and abolition.

It is curious that from the very beginning, the Nazis announced to Germany what they were bringing.

At once, wedding bells and death, including their own deaths and the death of the Germans.

They thought they would perish, but that their undertaking would be resumed all across Europe, all over the world, throughout the solar system.

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In A Thousand Plateaus, Deleuze and Guattari quote an excerpt from Klaus Mann's 1936 novel Mephisto, which contains fascist speeches and ordinary conversations from Nazi Germany.

The quote they include is eerily similar to the visuals of Trump as the suicidal penguin.

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Heroism was something that was being ruled out of our lives.

In reality, we are not marching forward.

We are reeling, staggering.

Our beloved Fuhrer is dragging us toward the shades of darkness and everlasting nothingness.

How can we poets, who have a special affinity for darkness and lower depths, not admire him?"

Deleuze and Guattari then write, "...suicide is presented not as a punishment, but as the crowning glory of the death of others.

The insufficiency of economic and political definitions of fascism does not simply imply a need to tack on vague so-called ideological determinations.

We prefer to inquiry into the precise formation of Nazi statements."

which are just as much in evidence in politics and economics as in the most absurd of conversations.

They always contain the stupid and repugnant cry, long live death.

Even at the economic level, where the arms expansion replaces growth in consumption and where investment veers from the means of production toward the means of pure destruction."