Author(s)

Yue Pan

College of Philosophy, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China.

Deleuze and Guattari’s theory of state is a key theme in their political philosophy. By combining “micro-politics” and “macro-politics”, this paper summarizes the origins of the state at the macro level in three elements: unique overcoding, explicit boundaries and centralized power resonances, which could be further summarized as the establishment of an abstract symbolic system; at the micro level, primitive societies and state societies are simultaneously coexisting, they are in a dialectical relationship, which interpenetrate each other and are always present in every society.

Deleuze, Micro-Politics, Macro-Politics, State Theory

Pan, Y. (2023) On the Dialectical Relationship between Primitive Societies and State Societies in Deleuze’s Political Philosophy. Open Journal of Social Sciences, 11, 124-131. doi: 10.4236/jss.2023.113008.