Thanks to Jonathan Maskit for the accurate Spinoza quote. I thought I
was responding to a previous discussion of desire vs interest in the
A-O, but can't for the moment find the discussion in the archives;
someone had actually quoted a key passage from the A-O. The place to
look, in any case, is in the 5th section of Part 4 ("The Second
Positive Task of Schizoanalysis"), esp. pp.343ff., where D&G
distinguish "the unconscious libidinal investment of group or desire
[from] the preconscious investment of class or interest" (343), and
then conclude that "interest always comes after" (346). Jonathan is
right that D&G draw as much (or more) on Nietzsche as on Spinoza here
and elsewhere, but it should also be said that the notion of
"interest" they're invoking is from Marx rather than Kant (as the
above quote makes clear), so I still think the Spinozan/Nietzschean
opposition and prioritization are relevant -- and this constitutes one
of D&G's major departures from Hegelian Marxism!
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