"where there is no probable ground for truth to exist or function in the first place, hence the outcome is destructive"
Why is the alleged absence of ground destructive? Haven't you already smuggled in your assumed morality through its absence?
Coming to terms with how Deleuze addresses the problem of truth will help you with your critique, I think.
In _The Fold_ an oft quoted line is regarding truth, which I shall have to paraphrase as I am away from my books, "It is not a question of the variation of truth, but the truth of variation." Besides being in the annoying 'not [this], but [that]' form favoured at least in english translations of many of Deleuze's work, this is probably one of my favourite lines.
One of the problems that so-called identity theorists have with comprehending Deleuze's works is the a priori character of identity assumed in their work. Think of it this way, we are not in a community because we share common traits that express some sort of essence, which can be represented in various ways and which forms the basis of the distribution of material resources in mechanisms of power. Maybe there are other people (not) *like* me out there (who knows!?!?). I suggest we are a community because, for example, we have all developed capacities and coping mechanisms for processing the sometimes wayward and sometimes challenging contingency released when the singular Bill Harris posts to the list. Each time a Bill Harris post is distributed 'the list' is (re)produced 'informaterially' (to coin a neologism) and it is also differentialy repeated as the event of 'the list', and various responses are effected anew which further effects further iterations, etc.
ciao,
glen.
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