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?

What interests us in operations of striation and smoothing are precisely the passages or combinations: how the forces at work within space continually striate it, and how in the course of its striation it develops other forces and emits new smooth spaces.

Something in the world forces us to think. This something is an object not of recognition but of a fundamental encounter.

As for being responsible or irresponsible, we don't recognize those notions, they're for policemen and courtroom psychiatrists.

A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.

A leftist government doesn't exist because being on the left has nothing to do with governments.

Philosophy is not in a state of external reflection on other domains, but in a state of active and internal alliance with them, and it is neither more abstract nor more difficult.