A disintegrating society can recrystallize ideologically around the prospect of massacre

Evidence

Since the Jewish question in its social aspect turned into a catalyst of social unrest, until finally a disintegrated society recrystallized ideologically around a possible massacre of Jews, it is necessary to outline some of the main traits of the social history of emancipated Jewry in the bourgeois society of the last century. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 186

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: The claim that a disintegrated society ‘recrystallizes ideologically around a possible massacre of Jews’ is a dense, paradigm-level mechanism about how genocide becomes a social organizing principle — worth sitting with.
• XREF: connects to: Marxism holds that capitalism’s collapse could end in barbarism, not only communism. — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism: A Marxist…, 161