To Dream in the Winter Years: Guattari and Negri's Anti- Capitalist Assemblage

Abstract

New Lines of Alliance is a four-handed written text. Undoubtedly, a revolutionary manifest in which the project itself of revolution takes on a new sense based on a complex redefinition – or rather a reelaboration– of the concept of communism. In what follows, we will unfold the different determinations of it offered by Guattari and Negri and we will do it with a double purpose: on the one hand, to insist once again on the fact that –from a non-orthodox perspective, however– Guattari's thought (there's no need to emphasize this point regarding Negri) makes an assemblage with communism even in the Winter (or Depression) Years; on the other, to provide us –from a theoretical point of view– with some tools that may not only result useful to reflection about the new forms of fascism which are threatening us here and now but also contribute to deactivate them. Theory is militance: Guattari and Negri know it, and so do we.