Genocide kills for non-fit with the perfect society’s scheme

Evidence

Stalin’s and Hitler’s victims were not killed in order to capture and colonize the territory they occupied. Often they were killed in a dull, mechanical fashion with no human emotions – hatred included – to enliven it. They were killed because they did not fit, for one reason or another, the scheme of a perfect society. Their killing was not the work of destruction, but creation. They were eliminated, so that an objectively better human world – more efficient, more moral, more beautiful – could be established. — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 269

Categorization

• XREF: The claim that victims were killed for ‘ineradicable blight of past or origin’ connects to Arendt’s statelessness and racial-theoretical frameworks. — connects to: Modern genocide functions as social engineering toward a perfect society — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 264; Modern rational society enabled systematic genocide and discredited impulsive mass violence — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 261; Genocide’s victims die for what the perfect order ought to be — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 266 (+3 more)

Related

• Modern genocide functions as social engineering toward a perfect society (similarity 0.90)
• Genocide’s victims die for what the perfect order ought to be (similarity 0.86)
• Genocide is a normal potential of modernity, not its malfunction. (similarity 0.85)
• Genocide required replacing collective rage with bureaucratic obedience (similarity 0.84)
• Genocide combines ordinary modern factors that are usually kept apart (similarity 0.84)
• The Holocaust was rational social management in scientific dress (similarity 0.84)
• Potent technology plus designed-order ambition produced modern genocide (similarity 0.83)
• Genocide is creative weeding, not destructive hatred (similarity 0.83)
• Social engineering ambition combined with concentrated power produced the Holocaust (similarity 0.83)
• Modern rational society enabled systematic genocide and discredited impulsive mass violence (similarity 0.82)
• Nazi and Stalinist genocide expressed rather than betrayed modernity’s spirit (similarity 0.81)
• Instrumental rationality cannot prevent mass atrocities and normalizes social engineering. (similarity 0.81)
• Genocide targets a category, so victims must first be abstracted. (similarity 0.81)
• Ordinary genocide aims at community destruction, not total annihilation. (similarity 0.80)
• Modern genocide requires bureaucracy meeting a rationally engineered social design (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Genocide is creative weeding, not destructive hatred #exemplifies (0.90) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 268
• Modern genocide requires bureaucracy meeting a rationally engineered social design #expands (0.85) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 309
• Potent technology plus designed-order ambition produced modern genocide #expands (0.80) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 620