On the Dialectical Relationship between Primitive Societies and State Societies in Deleuze’s Political Philosophy

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.