Nazi racism was consonant with modern social-engineering worldviews rather than a medieval relapse

Evidence

In this conception of social engineering as a scientifically founded work aimed at the institution of a new, and better, order (a work which necessarily entails the containment, or preferably elimination, of any disruptive factors), racism was indeed resonant with the world-view and practice of modernity. And this, at least, in two vital respects. — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 197

Categorization

• XREF: This is the thesis that refuses to bracket Nazi racism as an anomaly of modernity — a key claim connecting to Genealogy/Sozialtechnologie debates and to the necropolitics scaffold. — connects to: Demonization of Jews stems from their modern ambiguous social role, not medieval memories — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 831; The Nazi movement’s novelty was organizing the racial idea, not inventing it; Nazi social policy extended breeding logic to urban improvement and elimination. — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 795 (+11 more)
• DEEPTHINKING: The core paradigm-shift of the book: racism is not pre-modern barbarism but the logical work of modern scientific order-building.

Related

• The Nazi movement’s novelty was organizing the racial idea, not inventing it (similarity 0.91)
• Racism is a thoroughly modern weapon serving pre-modern struggles (similarity 0.87)
• Nazi extermination was a legitimate offspring of the modern spirit, not a regression (similarity 0.84)
• The Holocaust is a by-product of runaway modernist design (similarity 0.84)
• Nazi design treated Jewish absence as instrumental to a perfect world (similarity 0.83)
• Nazi social policy extended breeding logic to urban improvement and elimination. (similarity 0.83)
• The Holocaust resulted from distinctly modern social and political conditions (similarity 0.83)
• The Holocaust was rational social management in scientific dress (similarity 0.82)
• The Holocaust was a product of modernity, not pre-modern barbarity. (similarity 0.82)
• All Holocaust scholarship is ultimately a debate over modernity’s self-image. (similarity 0.82)
• Modernist urges toward social perfection, not barbarism, powered totalitarian atrocities (similarity 0.82)
• Nazi genocide extended modernity’s utopian logic rather than deviating from it. (similarity 0.82)
• Both dominant readings of the Holocaust leave sociology’s theory of modernity unchallenged (similarity 0.82)
• The Holocaust combined long-festering social tensions with the rational instruments modernity created (similarity 0.81)
• Modern civilization was a necessary but not sufficient condition of the Holocaust. (similarity 0.81)

Broader Connections

• Social engineering ambition combined with concentrated power produced the Holocaust #corroborates (0.85) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 224
• Nazi and Stalinist genocide expressed rather than betrayed modernity’s spirit #corroborates (0.82) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 270
• The Holocaust combined long-festering social tensions with the rational instruments modernity created #qualifies (0.80) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 32
• Racism shows natural affinity with anti-modern emotions #contradicts (0.78) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 181
• Both dominant readings of the Holocaust leave sociology’s theory of modernity unchallenged #expands (0.72) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 42