Racial ideology is a desexualized, repackaged form of primitive brotherhood

Evidence

The notion of race shares two properties with brotherhood: it is supposedly ‘natural’, a bond of ‘blood’, and it is de-sexualized. In fascism this similarity is kept unconscious. It mentions brotherhood comparatively rarely, and usually only in regard to Germans living outside the borders of the Reich (‘Our Sudeten brothers’). This, of course, is partly due to recollections of the ideal of fraternite of the French Revolution, taboo to the Nazis. — Theodor W. Adorno, The Culture Industry, 321

Categorization

Category: Contrarian or Surprising Claims

• BMF: The ‘fascism keeps the brotherhood-similarity unconscious, mentioning it only for Sudeten Germans’ pattern evokes We by Zamyatin, where the state’s de-sexualized collective ‘We’ banishes individual Eros as tabu — a direct literary working of this exact repression mechanism. BMF tag is earned because it’s a specific formal parallel, not just shared subject.