A future crisis could reactivate racist state social-engineering capacities.

Evidence

On the evidence of the present trends towards withdrawal of the Western state from direct management of many areas of previously controlled social life, and towards a pluralism-generating, market-led structure of social life, it seems unlikely that a racist form of antisemitism may be again used by a Western state as an instrument of a large-scale social-engineering project. … One can assume that situations calling for a direct take-over of social management by the state may well happen in some not too distant future – and then the well-entrenched and well-tested racist perspective may again come handy. — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 230

Categorization

• QUESTION: Bauman predicts racist social-engineering could return if the state re-expands; worth testing against later Islamophobia-era securitization scholarship.
• XREF: connects to: Racism is a technology that legitimizes state killing under biopower. — Achille Mbembe, Necropolitics, 39; Theoretical antisemitism matters through its link to state social-engineering ambitions. — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 230; A government can manufacture crisis to construct its own people as enemy — , The Braided Reading EPUB: 5-Year…, 111 (+4 more)

Related

• Theoretical antisemitism matters through its link to state social-engineering ambitions. (similarity 0.82)

Broader Connections

• A government can manufacture crisis to construct its own people as enemy #expands (0.85) — , The Braided Reading EPUB, 111
• National identity transition moments breed new exclusionary racisms #qualifies (0.80)
• Racism and bureaucracy developed separately before combining for total destruction #complicates (0.78) — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 487
• Racist worldviews require modern bureaucracy to implement extermination #complicates (0.75) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 223