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beezneez · 3817 days ago · link · · parent · post: Give me a great quote from something you're reading, have read recently.
"The factors that make State war total war are closely connected to capitalism: it has to do with the investment of constant capital in equipment, industry, and the war economy, and the investment of variable capital in the population in its physical and mental aspects (both as warmaker and as victim of war). Total war is not only a war of annihilation but arises when annihilation takes as its "center" not only the enemy army, or the enemy State, but the entire population and its economy. The fact that the double investment can be made only under prior conditions of limited war illustrates the irresistible character of the capitalist tendency to develop total war." -Deleuze and Guattari, 1k Plateaus