Genocide can be achieved by reinforcing communal structures rather than destroying them

Evidence

Downwards, Jewish leadership exercised a formally unlimited power over the captive population; upwards, it was at the mercy of a criminal organization free from all control exercised by the constitutional organs of the state. Jewish elites played therefore a crucial mediating role in the incapacitation of the Jews; quite untypically for a genocide, the total subjection of a population to an unconstrained will of their captors was achieved not through destruction, but by reinforcing the communal structure and the integrative role played by native elites. — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 348

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: Turns the intuition that oppression destroys community on its head: here subjection is secured precisely by strengthening native elite integration — a mechanism of broad significance for how power co-opts the oppressed.
• XREF: Supplies the counterintuitive core for understanding how hegemony secures the collaboration of the dominated in later Islamophobia readings. — connects to: Memory of genocide can teach victims to become future victimizers. — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 670; Modern genocide requires bureaucracy meeting a rationally engineered social design — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 309; Ordinary genocide aims at community destruction, not total annihilation. — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 343 (+2 more)

Related

• Genocide achieves its aim chiefly by destroying a community’s traditional elites. (similarity 0.87)
• Ordinary genocide aims at community destruction, not total annihilation. (similarity 0.84)
• The totalizing aim of Entfernung paradoxically preserved Jewish communal structure. (similarity 0.83)
• Memory of genocide can teach victims to become future victimizers. (similarity 0.80)