Microfascism in the 21st Century: Finding a Way Forward through Deleuze’s Immanent Theory of Desire

This paper takes a critical examination at selected works by 20th century philosophers Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari. I argue that, far from arcane, distant, inaccessible concepts, the selected Marxist ideas presented in their immanent critiques provide priceless insight into how fascism, in all forms, permeates every stretch of society. Understanding how these events occur, called micro- and macro-fascism, and how they are mediated through our beliefs and desires, can allow for us to resist transcendent theories of desire and modes and politics, and towards a mode of immanence, one that is always critiquing itself, and always resisting fascism