Deleuze and Guattari’s critique in L’Anti-œdipeCaptialisme et Schizophrénie is not targeted at contemporary psychoanalytic trends, but rather at the capital logic in the context of capitalist financialization in capitalist society in 1970s. Deleuze and Guattari regarded the financialization of capital as a proliferation of capital by blood rather than by marriage, which was the real start of the capitalist machine. Thus, the confrontation between capital and labor in Marx’s critique of the logic of capital has been fundamentally changed and the narrative initiated by Althusser’s “philosophy of encounter” about how the primitive accumulation of capital is possible needs to be reconsidered: the heterogeneity between labor and capital makes their encounter impossible due to their corresponding “human nature” and “inhumanity”, while the financialization of capital, making labor and capital different forms of currency, gives them all the possibilities to come across. Deleuze and Gatari’s approach to the discussion of this “encounter philosophy” reflects their descriptive criticism of the logic of capital in the context of financialization of capital. The non-dialectical affirmative criticism contained in their criticism abandons the dialectical negative criticism, ultimately making their criticism tainted with a shade of cynicism. 

　　Editor: Zhong Yao  Wei Xiaoxue 

　　From: Wuhan University Journal(Philosophy & Social Science).2024.No.6.