Modernity cannot be sustained without colonialism and genocide in all their forms

Evidence

It is also this same power, driven by a progress theology, that renders the phenomenon of genocide, especially the Holocaust, an exception to modernity, when in fact genocide is inherent in it. … My argument instead is that the two phenomena are structurally interconnected, genocide being one of the necessary conditions and manifestations of this “state,” manifestations that do not always take on the form of genocide as an “event,” but they remain—in structural terms—genocidal nonetheless. — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 407 (#expands, via linked claim)

That colonialism is not merely a derivative of modernity but one that constitutes modernity’s very structures, resting squarely on what the semiotician Walter Mignolo called “colonial difference,” is a proposition that I take for granted. But it will not do to argue (as certain Latin American transmodernists have) that because modernity’s self-reproduction rests on the fabrication of its own exteriority through the process of dehumanizing the Other, the experience of the Other as a production of colonialism and Orientalism should become the axis for modernity’s critique. For such an argument is in effect tautological: colonialism and Orientalism, being processually productive of the Other par excellence, structure modernity because modernity is structured by colonialism and Orientalism! — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 44 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Modernity is best understood as the civilization produced by global capitalism — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism: A Marxist…, 162; Genocide is inherent to modernity, not an exception to it — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism: A Critique of…, 407; Colonialism constitutes modernity itself rather than merely deriving from it — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism: A Critique of…, 44 (+11 more)

Broader Connections

• Genocide is inherent to modernity, not an exception to it #expands (0.95) — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 407
• Colonialism constitutes modernity itself rather than merely deriving from it #expands (0.93) — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 44
• Colonialism and modernity are one and the same phenomenon. #corroborates (0.92)
• Colonial power instrumentalized reason and thereby corrupted modernity’s promise #complicates (0.77) — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 615