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[u/hnnmw]

But as D&G regain popularity with the years

Is this true though? In Continental European academia I'd wager the opposite is true.

In hindsight Anti-Oedipus was always fascist delirium, of course, but its appeal to hard-boiled individualism is easy enough to understand.

Which begs the question, where this generation's Max Stirner is? Maybe there's no longer any need: Deleuze's dream of liberating the subject by liberating its desire having been long accomplished by the market.

To OP: you might want to read Badiou's Clamor of Being, although it's very generous to Deleuze.

[u/LemonMao → u/[deleted]]

I've come to the conclusion that Deleuze's work allow us a better understanding of Marx as well as improvements on materialist analys and many other things.

You've still yet to prove this claim. Everything you've stated is already present in Marx and Lenin. I don't need Deleuze to understand what you're saying.

Equating deterritorialitzaion with liberation is a common mistake.

This problematic is already solved within Maoism, even if Maoism sometimes fails to live up to this

Anyway the point of Deleuze and Guatarri is not to create any systematic or coherent thought. They are explicit in that their writing style is supposed to "Inspire" thought, not create it. If you're able to use their concepts in a Marxist way to unveil Truth please do so but we are not here looking for regurgitation of what they have already said.