Ordinary genocide aims at community destruction, not total annihilation.

Evidence

Indeed, the routine of genocide on the whole excludes that co-operation of the victims which was so prominent in the course of the Holocaust. ‘Ordinary’ genocide is rarely, if at all, aimed at the total annihilation of the group; the purpose of the violence (if the violence is purposeful and planned) is to destroy the marked category (a nation, a tribe, a religious sect) as a viable communmity capable of self-perpetuation and defence of its own self-identity. … With these two conditions fulfilled, the victims are at the mercy of their tormentors. They may be forced into protracted slavery, or offered a place in the new order on the terms set by the victors – but which sequel is chosen depends fully on the conquerors’ whim. Whichever option has been selected, the perpetrators of the genocide benefit. They extend and solidify their power, and eradicate the roots of the opposition. — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 343

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines ‘ordinary genocide’ by its objective — undermining a group’s self-perpetuation capacity — which distinguishes it from the Holocaust’s totalizing aim. Key conceptual tool for the reader’s vocabulary.
• XREF: This analytic distinction between ordinary and totalizing genocide is what later scholarship (and the reader’s study of targeted group destruction) builds taxonomy on. — connects to: Genocide achieves its aim chiefly by destroying a community’s traditional elites. — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 344; Genocide is creative weeding, not destructive hatred — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 268; Genocide can be achieved by reinforcing communal structures rather than destroying them — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 348 (+2 more)

Related

• Genocide achieves its aim chiefly by destroying a community’s traditional elites. (similarity 0.86)
• Genocide can be achieved by reinforcing communal structures rather than destroying them (similarity 0.84)
• Genocide is a normal potential of modernity, not its malfunction. (similarity 0.81)
• Genocide combines ordinary modern factors that are usually kept apart (similarity 0.80)
• Modern genocide functions as social engineering toward a perfect society (similarity 0.80)
• Genocide kills for non-fit with the perfect society’s scheme (similarity 0.80)
• Genocide targets a group as an entity, not individuals (similarity 0.79)
• Persecution separates victims and begins massacres short of outright genocide (similarity 0.79)
• Genocide is creative weeding, not destructive hatred (similarity 0.78)
• Heterophobia and boundary anxieties do not directly cause genocide. (similarity 0.78)
• Memory of genocide can teach victims to become future victimizers. (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Genocide achieves its aim chiefly by destroying a community’s traditional elites. #expands (0.85) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 344
• Genocide can be achieved by reinforcing communal structures rather than destroying them #expands (0.85) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 348
• Genocide is creative weeding, not destructive hatred #complicates (0.80) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 268
• Settler colonialism aims to terminate peoples’ existence, not individuals #expands (0.80) — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the…, 17