Soviet State racism turned the class enemy into a biological threat

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

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines Soviet State racism as the conversion of a political enemy into a biological threat policed medically.
• XREF: Connects to the biopolitics/necropolitics toolkit the reader is building; parallels later Islamophobia readings that treat exclusion as medicalized threat. — connects to: Hitler and Stalin both drew on pan-ethnic ideologies.; Racism is a technology that legitimizes state killing under biopower. — Achille Mbembe, Necropolitics, 39; Soviet racism transformed State racism surreptitiously and without prophetic mythology. (+3 more)

Related

• Soviet racism transformed State racism surreptitiously and without prophetic mythology. (similarity 0.92)
• Hitler and Stalin both drew on pan-ethnic ideologies. (similarity 0.83)
• Nineteenth-century State racism reutilized older religious anti-Semitism for biological exclusion (similarity 0.80)
• State socialist regimes engaged in racism as readily as capitalist ones (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Racism harms health through internalization, physiological stress, and direct violence. #corroborates (0.75) — A. Hussain, N. Meer, Framing Muslim Integration, 318
• Racial discrimination produces measurable biological and physiological damage #corroborates (0.72) — Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia, 317
• Nineteenth-century State racism reutilized older religious anti-Semitism for biological exclusion #complicates (0.70) — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 105