Fascism

From Capitalism and Schizophrenia

According to Deleuze and Guattari, totalitarianism and fascism are assembled in a different manner: While the totalitarian State serves to retain stasis and control through overcoding, the fascist society emerges through and intensification, involving both the state and its citizens. Totalitarianism striates space, creates structure; fascism smoothens out space, demolishes structure. Thus,

"fascism differs from totalitarianism. For totalitarianism is a State affair: 
it essentially  concerns the relation between the State as a localised assemblage
and the abstract machine of overcoding that it effectuates. Even in the case of 
the military dictatorship, it is a State army, not a war machine that takes power 
and elevates the State to the totalitarian stage. Totalitarism is essentially 
conservative. Fascism, on the other hand, involves a war machine. When fascism 
builds itself a totalitarian State, it is not in the sense of a State army taking 
power, but of a war machine taking over the State. [...] Unlike the totalitarian 
State, which does it utmost to seal all possible lines of flight, fascism is 
constructed on an intense line of flight, which it transforms into pure destruction 
and abolition" (Deleuze & Guattari, 1988: 230).