Reduced to Production?

I'm still trying to grapple with many of the specifics of each D&G essay, but it seems that "production" plays a large role in their approach. I found "The Desiring Machines" especially relevant in this instance, as their polemic centers on refuting psychoanalytic theories of desire as expression or lack in favor of a fundamentally productive concept of the unconscious:

In a word, when the theoretician reduces desiring-production to a production of fantasy, he is content to exploit to the fullest the idealist principle that defines desire as a lack, rather than a process of production, of 'industrial' production. (A-O, 26)

And while their theories provide a much-needed corrective to theories of the liberal subject in which a man's needs and wants arise spontaneously, I wonder if their emphasis on production isn't also leading them into a more fundamental complicity with capitalism. My suspicion, which  is based on Baudrillard's essay "The Mirror of Production," is that liberal political economy, Marxism, and, if my theory holds up, Deleuze & Guattari overdetermine man as a producing subject.

Does pointing to the "industrial" production of desire naturalize capitalism & its organization of labor? It's hard to ask questions like these of Deleuze & Guattari's text, for the distinction between natural and social is thrown into question by their theoretical framework. And it would seem that they take serious issue with the way that desire is repressed, constrained, channeled into and coupled with capitalist economy. Yet lines such as "everything is production" (which occurs twice on page 2) still make me uneasy. Am I failing to embrace the plane of consistency, the continuity of desire and the real? Or are Deleuze and Guattari relying too heavily on "production" as some sort of totalizing explanatory principle?

I can't say that I have any answers. I found the reading very difficult this week, but I hope that as we discuss it in class I'll get a better handle on it. Yet I also wonder if the sort of understanding that I want isn't exactly the kind of totalizing, abstract thought that Deleuze & Guattari reject.