Conditions enabling genocide remain while absolute-state deployment grows less likely

Evidence

To be sure, thanks to the late modern surfeit of mutually cancelling authorities and due to the irredeemable polyvocality which goes together with political democracy and the weakening grip of state powers, the chances of such players gaining an upper hand and deploying the absolute powers of the state to set a Holocaust-style ‘solution’ in motion are slim and remote. Yet to say with any degree of self-assurance that the forces eager for an Endlösung type of action, and either the necessary or the sufficient conditions for them acting in that way, are no longer present today would be equally premature and imprudent. — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 654

Categorization

• QUESTION: Worth chasing: under what specific institutional conditions could Endlösung-type action re-emerge — what are ‘the necessary or sufficient conditions’?
• DEEPTHINKING: The polyvocality-vs-genocide tension is a dense claim: democracy’s multiplying authorities may protect against genocide, yet the underlying forces persist. Top-tier for the toolkit.
• XREF: connects to: Totalitarian solutions remain tempting wherever misery resists worthy alleviation; After 1945 the question shifted from whether to which western nation could commit genocide — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 570; Institutional quotas kept Tutsi confined to minority-status roles before the genocide — Erin K. Jenne and Promise Frank Ejiofor, Ethnopopulism and genocidal…, 60

Related

• Genocidal potentials remain present in modern society despite democratic constraints (similarity 0.86)
• Totalitarian solutions remain tempting wherever misery resists worthy alleviation (similarity 0.82)
• The social conditions enabling the Holocaust may still be present. (similarity 0.81)
• Genocide is a normal potential of modernity, not its malfunction. (similarity 0.80)
• After 1945 the question shifted from whether to which western nation could commit genocide (similarity 0.79)
• None of the societal conditions that made Auschwitz possible has disappeared. (similarity 0.79)