Hobbes’s exclusion of humanity from politics is the prerequisite for all race doctrines

Evidence

The philosophy of Hobbes, it is true, contains nothing of modern race doctrines, which not only stir up the mob, but in their totalitarian form outline very clearly the forms of organization through which humanity could carry the endless process of capital and power accumulation through to its logical end in self-destruction. But Hobbes at least provided political thought with the prerequisite for all race doctrines, that is, the exclusion in principle of the idea of humanity which constitutes the sole regulating idea of international law. With the assumption that foreign politics is necessarily outside of the human contract, engaged in the perpetual war of all against all, which is the law of the “state of nature,” Hobbes affords the best possible theoretical foundation for those naturalistic ideologies which hold nations to be tribes, separated from each other by nature, without any connection whatever, unconscious of the solidarity of mankind and having in common only the instinct for self-preservation which man shares with the animal world. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 427

Categorization

• DEFINE: Establishes the mechanism linking Hobbes’s state-of-nature assumption to race doctrines — the abolition of the idea of humanity as international law’s regulating idea.
• XREF: Directly scaffolds the Islamophobia field’s grounding in how racialized selfhood and the ‘Other’ are constructed; connects to Orientalism’s critique of representation that presumes no common humanity. — connects to: Hobbes’s exclusionary frame is cultural-historical civility rather than biological race — , Stephanie B. Martens - Civilization and…, 25; Hobbes stripped matter of all inherent activity and power — Carolyn Merchant, The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology,…, 808
• QUESTION: Worth chasing: how does the later totalitarian version of race doctrines (outlining organization forms) differ from the imperialist mob version Arendt describes here?