DELEUZE VE GUATTARI’DE İLİŞKİSEL MARKSİZM’E DAİR POLİTİK BİR MÜDAHALE
A POLITICAL INTERVENTION TO RELATIONAL MARXISM IN DELEUZE AND GUATTARI

Summary/Abstract: This study sees the political ontology developed by Deleuze and Guattari regarding Marxism as a political intervention in relational Marxism. The philosophers who adopt the concept of relationality as a plane rather than a method in their works, handle to Marxism in the focus of relationality. This relationality isn’t built with the common sense approach and the philosophy of internal relations. It is not part-whole relationship based on organism understanding. For thinkers, it is the main point of departure that the terms in the relationship can’t be reduced to the relationship itself. Based on this claim, the relation of terms isn’t the relation of two independent entities, but an assembly relation inherent to each other. The encounter between the “free labor” and the “owner of money” that Marx put forward for the social organization of capitalism is considered as the relation of capitalist assembly as flows. The encounter of these two elements is presented in Deleuze and Guattari as the virtual or the actualization of the virtual. The actualization of the virtual is dealt with in the context of the productions of subjectivity. “Free labor” and “owner of money” are revealed as the productions of subjectivity. Analyzing through subjectivity productions can’t be conceived independently from Deleuze and Guattari’s machine theory. Firstly, this study put forward the issue of autonomy of terms against relation in Deleuze and Guattari’s political philosophy through assembly theory and will address how thinkers grasp relationality. Then, it will analyze how is handled the encounter between the “free worker” and the “owner of money”, perceived as the relationality of capitalism in Marx.

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