None of the societal conditions that made Auschwitz possible has disappeared.

Evidence

This state of affairs is worrying not only, and not at all primarily, for the professional reasons – however detrimental it may be for the cognitive powers and societal relevance of sociology. What makes this situation much more disturbing is the awareness that if ‘it could happen on such a massive scale elsewhere, then it can happen anywhere; it is all within the range of human possibility, and like it or not, Auschwitz expands the universe of consciousness no less than landing on the moon’. The anxiety can hardly abate in view of the fact that none of the societal conditions that made Auschwitz possible has truly disappeared, and no effective measures have been undertaken to prevent such possibilities and principles from generating Auschwitz-like catastrophes — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 67

Categorization

• XREF: The insistence that the enabling conditions persist directly parallels necropolitics arguments that the logics of mass death remain latent in modern state sovereignty. — connects to: Adiaphorization alone cannot explain the novelty of Gulag, Auschwitz, Hiroshima — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 617; Uyghur women are sterilized and publicly shaved in camps echoing Auschwitz imagery
• DEEPTHINKING: The claim that structural genocide-potential persists because its conditions persist is the load-bearing thesis of the whole book — a dense, paradigm-shifting move requiring sustained unpacking.

Related

• The social conditions enabling the Holocaust may still be present. (similarity 0.86)
• Adiaphorization alone cannot explain the novelty of Gulag, Auschwitz, Hiroshima (similarity 0.83)
• The Holocaust question must keep its full weight and horror (similarity 0.80)
• The Holocaust is a possibility modernity contains, not its paradigm (similarity 0.80)
• The Holocaust is a by-product of runaway modernist design (similarity 0.79)
• The Holocaust functions as a laboratory test revealing modernity’s hidden capacities. (similarity 0.79)
• Conditions enabling genocide remain while absolute-state deployment grows less likely (similarity 0.79)
• The Holocaust resulted from distinctly modern social and political conditions (similarity 0.79)
• Both dominant readings of the Holocaust leave sociology’s theory of modernity unchallenged (similarity 0.79)
• Modernity’s institutions actively enabled and supplied the Holocaust (similarity 0.79)
• Modern civilization was a necessary but not sufficient condition of the Holocaust. (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Uyghur women are sterilized and publicly shaved in camps echoing Auschwitz imagery #exemplifies (0.85)
• Adiaphorization alone cannot explain the novelty of Gulag, Auschwitz, Hiroshima #corroborates (0.75) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 617