The strategic adversary is fascism... the fascism in us all, in our heads and in our everyday behavior, the fascism that causes us to love power, to desire the very thing that dominates and exploits us.
— Michel Foucault Contemporary

Power structures, postmodernism

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Preface to 'Anti-Oedipus' by Deleuze and Guattari

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1977

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Controversial

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