Jean-François Lyotard - Libidinal Marx (Libidinal Economy, 1974) 

I’d love to know what you think it is. The only thing I got from this was the a sort of being-in-the-world girl Marx vs. book-Marx dichotomy but honestly I have no idea.

@@oskar5724 I dont get everything but this is my interpretation (though he certainly uses a lot of flowery language that makes it hard to read). By reading Marx not as a set of modern political theories (as in a scientific paper) but rather as an author of a "classic" work of art, you can see a libidinal economy within his work that reveals what his personal motivation for writing is, which then acts as food for the motivation of, perhaps both, militant leftists and "real serious" marxists (of the ussr). He locates the enjoyment in a perpetual postponement of "the work", in which the volumes of capital, and interestingly in both the militant quest for a radical politics and the soviet quest for Real Communism, were postponed on and on (and thus never formed a real "body of work", but fragments of a body) and questions why. I think the whole thing of Girl/Judge is the antagony between the seductive woman/proleteriat and the real of theory as a project (I think lyotard means like, the proleteriat functions as a woman in a male desire, that is simultaneously the gaze you wish to win over, and a substitute object that is pointed to by the object-cause of desire). He uses a lot of freudian terms like polymorphous perversity in reference to capitals queering or schizic drive of disrupting what he calls "genital desire" which I interpet as a whole consistent Sex (that would ground your identity without threat), and he sits Marxs desire here. I guess by this he means Marx being is conservative in his enjoyment, or perhaps that his communist theorising is an attempt to Territorialise capitalism? Overall I think this passage is an attempt to figure out why Marxist millitancy, here aligning with capitalisms "production over product", tickles a desire "to produce revolution" rather than to go through with it and actually revolt, and why it appears so rediculous doing so (see any modern "marxist" partys obscene comical obsession with justifying lenin or stalin, to the point that they become conspiracy theorists). Lastly he then consideres if this postponement is a symptom of the *horror* of a real breakthrough (and thus the reason for the little girl marxs genital frustrations at the Theoretical Judge which in the search for a suitable partner Ruins her enjoyment), which I think is probably the cause of Stalinism (why the whole ussr joined in on his insanity and thusly renounced even ATTEMPTING Revolution for a comical "revolutionism"). hope that shed any amount of light