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    To say “ideology is a trompe l’oeil,” that’s
    still the traditional thesis. One puts the infrastructure on one side, the
    economic, the serious—-and on the other, the superstructure, of
    which ideology is a part, thus rejecting the phenomena of desire in
    ideology. It’s a perfect way to ignore how desire works within the
    infrastructure, how it invests it, how it takes part in it, how, in this
    respect, it organizes power and the repressive system. We do not say:
    ideology is a trompe l’oeil (or a concept that refers to certain illusions)
    . We say: there is no ideology, it is an illusion. That’s why it
    suits orthodox Marxism and the Communist Party so well. Marxism
    has put so much emphasis on the theme of ideology to better
    conceal what was happening in the USSR: a new organization of
    repressive power. There is no ideology, there are only organizations of
    power once it is admitted that the organization of power is the unity
    of desire and the economic infrastructure.
    – Gilles Deleuze (via theanimalnamesofplants)

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    Source: theanimalnamesofplants

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