From: lambdac-AT-globalserve.net
Date: Tue, 03 Nov 1998 23:52:05 -0500
Subject: Re: To a 'Deleuzian' cornudo


S. Saraq wrote-

>I simply
>pointed out that Deleuze supported Baader Meinhof - and not only once
>they were in prison, but all the way through their career. And, as I
>mentioned, Guattari supported the radical ecologists. Both of them also
>supported Antonio Negri.

All that weight of 'supporting this', 'supporting that' surely would
have sunk them!  Yes, yes, and it is precisely this 'pointing out' of
the patently false (eg 'supported Baader-Meinhof') which is so flatly
gratuitous.  Aren't you even a tad ashamed of dishing out such toilette
paper?  Guess not.  Leaving Negri alone, since he was not part of this
rat's ass per se, let us deal with the Baader-Meinhof/RAF disinformation
that you have now peddled-

What Guattari wrote on the subject runs something like this - who needs
more revolutionists that confuse terror with 'liberation', and
oedipalization with molecular alteration?  No one.  Save the 'media',
save those working to prolong the collective intoxication dished out by
the 'media' in their efforts to induce guilt.  For what matters "is
essentially (...) getting out of the RAF-West Germany confrontation, of
the repression-reprisals cycle, of the quasi-symmetrical simplification
of ideologies in opposition" (who wrote that dear?).  Following Worst
Mahler (whose humanist/legalistic stance nevertheless Guattari did not
uphold), Guattari denounced the RAF's and the Red Brigades' 'politics of
the worst' as a politics geared entirely to do the job of the State
(providing justification for the most fascistic forms of 'democratic
security') and the media (leading to a "legitimate feeling of pity"
(sic) for those like Moro or Schleyer who are the objects of these
"terrorist actions"): "the real drama is not that a man was killed, but
that these actions were conducted in a way that simply does not break
free of the repressive bourgeois system, fascist assassinations, or
kidnappings carried out by unofficial police gangs(...)  While I refuse
to judge whether or not their executions were well founded - to judge
their judges - I cannot stand by this type of operation".  

Are you then still suggesting that D&G supported the doings of little
fascist murderers which Guattari, for ex., above explicitly disavows? 
But let us continue - since it is a good slap you are begging for:

"And when a revolutionary group plays the game of the most reactionary
media, the game of collective guilt, then it has been mistaken: mistaken
in its target, mistaken in its method, mistaken in its strategy,
mistaken in its theory, mistaken in its dreams..."

The least you could have the courage to do, is to admit you have been
mistaken.  D&G _never_ supported the politics of the RAF.  And if you
had eyes to see and ears to listen, which we sincerely doubt you do,
then maybe what is needed to be said is simply that Guattari in the
above did not go far enough.  It is a bit like the booklet he
co-authored with Negri - it had been said better and more incisively by
the SI, Debord and Sanguinetti (see Censor's Veridical Report), and well
before.  For one could hardly be bothered to realize that "the real
consequence of 'terrorist' actions of the RAF/Red Brigades type does not
at all seem to have been taken into account by the leaders of these
movements".  Well, in fact, they were - the politics of the worst did
serve Capital, its State and its media well; it did what it was supposed
to do.  To call revolutionary any such 'movement' is already part and
parcel of the stigmatizing of revolution by Capital , its State and its
media.  Indeed, when its leaders were not in the direct pay of the State
to organize the actions they did, they surely had their strings pulled
by controllers who knew very well what they were doing.  It is these
controllers which your intent to disinform serves - with its
contemplation of the most virulent spectacle of revolution.  

"It is thus that in Italy the SIM, Military Intelligence Service of the
fascist regime, so well known for its sabotages and its assassinations
abroad, became the SID, Defence Intelligence Service under the
Christian-Democratic regime [while keeping its archives, its informers
and its practising officers].  (...) This SID, 'steeped in Italian
blood', has had to be recently dissolved because, as the State
acknowledges _post festum_, it was the one which since 1969 had carried
out directly, most often but not always with bombs, this long series of
massacres that were imputed, according to the time of the year and the
fashion of the season, to anarchists, neo-fascists or to situationists. 
Now that the 'Red Brigade' does exactly the same work, and, for once,
with a very superior operational value, it cannot combat it, since it
has been dissolved...  In any secret service worthy of its name, even
the dissolution is secret.  Hence one cannot distinguish what proportion
of units was permitted an honourable retirement, what other proportion
was assigned to the 'Red Brigade' or perhaps lent to the Shah of Iran to
burn down a cinema in Abadan, and what other proportion was discreetly
exterminated by a State probably indignant to learn that sometimes its
instructions have been exceeded and about which it is known that it will
never hesitate to kill the sons of Brutus in order to make its laws
respected, since its intransigent refusal to envisage even the most
minimal concession to save Moro has proved at last that it had all the
staunch virtues of republican Rome."  

Our turn to ask - who's paying you to write the disinformation you
peddle?  No one?, then you must be even duller than one presumed.  Créve
salope!  For, like this, you cannot claim to have one over any Nazi, be
it even Heidegger.

Lambda Comptante

PS. "Already once before Urbach had given us weapons; thus the Security
Police delivered weapons with which the police would be shot down.  
That's the situation in Germany.  It's very perverted.  We basically
didn't see that we were marionettes on strings.  When they themselves
put the weapons in our hands, then they're very interested that they be
used too.  No one thought about that, nobody except the groups who
criticized us for giving fuel to fascism (...)" (B. Baumann - "Wie Alles
Anfing")


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