The evil capitalism unleashed predates and exceeds Nazism

Evidence

Everything in this world reeks of crime: the newspaper, the wall, the countenance of man. … Baudelaire said that, before Hitler was born! … Which proves that the evil has a deeper source. — Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism, 183

Categorization

• XREF: Directly counters the postwar tendency to treat Nazism as a unique, decontextualized aberration rather than a product of European capitalist and colonial civilization — a move central to Césaire’s larger argument and to later postcolonial critiques of exceptionalism. — connects to: Capitalism and formal humanism lead logically to fascism — Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism, 24; Nazi and Stalinist genocide expressed rather than betrayed modernity’s spirit — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 270; Command economy and monopoly capitalism coexisted under Nazi rule — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 510 (+1 more)

Related

• Capitalism and formal humanism lead logically to fascism (similarity 0.83)
• Colonizing civilizations are morally corrupted and inevitably breed fascism (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Capitalism and formal humanism lead logically to fascism #corroborates (0.78) — Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism, 24
• Nazi and Stalinist genocide expressed rather than betrayed modernity’s spirit #corroborates (0.72) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 270