#state-quotes [[EPZ Thousand Plateaus - Gilles Deleuze Félix Guattari]] - forced scarcity Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari, Anti-Oedipus, Capitalism and Schizophrenia, 231 > As Samir Amin has shown, the process of deterritorialization here goes from the center to the periphery, that is, from the developed countries to the underdeveloped countries, which do not constitute a separate world, but rather an essential component of the world-wide capitalist machine. It must be added, however, that the center itself has its organized enclaves of underdevelopment, its reservations and its ghettos as interior peripheries. [[EPZ Thousand Plateaus - Gilles Deleuze Félix Guattari]] criteria for stability Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus, Capitalism and Schizophrenia, 468 > This is expressed in a common thesis, taken up and developed by Valery Giscard d'Estaing: the more equilibrated things become at the center between the West and the East, beginning with the equilibrium of overarmament, the more they become disequilibrated or "destabilized" from North to South and destabilize the central equilibrium. It is clear that in these formulas the South is an abstract term designating the Third World or the periphery; and even that there are Souths or Third Worlds inside the center. It is also clear that this destabilization is not accidental but is a (theorematic) conse- quence of the axioms of capitalism, principally of the axiom called unequal exchange, which is indispensable to capitalism's functioning. This for- mula is therefore the modern version of the oldest formula, which already obtained in the archaic empires under different conditions. The more the archaic empire overcoded the flows, the more it stimulated decoded flows that turned back against it and forced it to change. The more the decoded flows enter into a central axiomatic, the more they tend to escape to the periphery, to present problems that the axiomatic is incapable of resolving or controlling (even by adding special axioms for the periphery).