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Previous chapter Intermediate Forms of State – Royal State, Machinic Processes and Economic Flows Because of this relation between city-State and decoding processes, capitalism could seem at first more likely to emerge in cities. But Deleuze and Guattari cited the French historian Fernand Braudel who argued to the contrary. Towns usually remained, they noted, below this new threshold. “They anticipated capitalism” but they also “warded it off.” Could it not be said that capitalism - Économie classique et marxiste – Nouvel article