Soviet racism transformed State racism surreptitiously and without prophetic mythology.

Evidence

In Soviet State racism, what revolutionary discourse designated as the class enemy becomes a sort of biological threat. So, who is the class enemy now? Well, it’s the sick, the deviant, the madman. As a result, the weapon that was once used in the struggle against the class enemy (the weapon of war, or possibly the dialectic and conviction) is now wielded by a medical police which eliminates class enemies as though they were racial enemies. We have then, on the one hand, the Nazi remscription of State racism in the old legend of warring classes, and on the other, the Soviet reinscription of the class struggle within the silent mechanisms of a State racism. — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 100 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Soviet State racism turned the class enemy into a biological threat — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 100

Related

• Soviet State racism turned the class enemy into a biological threat (similarity 0.92)
• Hitler and Stalin both drew on pan-ethnic ideologies. (similarity 0.85)
• State socialist regimes engaged in racism as readily as capitalist ones (similarity 0.81)

Broader Connections

• Soviet State racism turned the class enemy into a biological threat #exemplifies (0.90) — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 100