Modern genocide functions as social engineering toward a perfect society

Evidence

Truly modern genocide is different. Modern genocide is genocide with a purpose. Getting rid of the adversary is not an end in itself. It is a means to an end: a necessity that stems from the ultimate objective, a step that one has to take if one wants ever to reach the end of the road. The end itself is a grand vision of a better, and radically different, society. Modern genocide is an element of social engineering, meant to bring about a social order conforming to the design of the perfect society. — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 264

Categorization

• XREF: The concept of genocide as social engineering toward the perfect society is a pivotal definitional element of the scaffold, aimed directly at the biopolitics and design-of-society strands of the reading list. — connects to: Modern execution technologies fused democratic equality with mass-scale killing. — Achille Mbembe, Necropolitics, 50; Potent technology plus designed-order ambition produced modern genocide — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 620; Manipulating Holocaust memory threatens the future’s human habitability — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 708 (+14 more)

Related

• Genocide kills for non-fit with the perfect society’s scheme (similarity 0.90)
• Potent technology plus designed-order ambition produced modern genocide (similarity 0.89)
• Genocide is a normal potential of modernity, not its malfunction. (similarity 0.88)
• Genocide combines ordinary modern factors that are usually kept apart (similarity 0.87)
• Modern genocide requires bureaucracy meeting a rationally engineered social design (similarity 0.86)
• Social engineering ambition combined with concentrated power produced the Holocaust (similarity 0.86)
• Genocide required replacing collective rage with bureaucratic obedience (similarity 0.86)
• Modern bureaucracy already contains everything needed for genocide without structural revision. (similarity 0.85)
• Modern rational society enabled systematic genocide and discredited impulsive mass violence (similarity 0.85)
• Instrumental rationality cannot prevent mass atrocities and normalizes social engineering. (similarity 0.85)
• Nazi and Stalinist genocide expressed rather than betrayed modernity’s spirit (similarity 0.83)
• The Holocaust was rational social management in scientific dress (similarity 0.82)
• Genocide is creative weeding, not destructive hatred (similarity 0.82)
• The Holocaust was a product of modern civilization, not merely its failure (similarity 0.81)
• Modern mass murder is rational, calculated, and free of spontaneity (similarity 0.81)

Broader Connections

• Modern genocide requires bureaucracy meeting a rationally engineered social design #corroborates (0.95) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 309
• Genocide kills for non-fit with the perfect society’s scheme #corroborates (0.92) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 269
• Genocide is creative weeding, not destructive hatred #corroborates (0.88) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 268
• Modern rational society enabled systematic genocide and discredited impulsive mass violence #expands (0.85) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 261
• Most genocide-conducive factors are normal features of every modern society #expands (0.78) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 278