The Holocaust resulted from an unchained state wielding violence and engineering ambitions

Evidence

I suggest in the conclusion that the Holocaust was an outcome of a unique encounter between factors by themselves quite ordinary and common; and that the possibility of such an encounter could be blamed to a very large extent on the emancipation of the political state, with its monopoly of means of violence and its audacious engineering ambitions, from social control – following the step-by-step dismantling of all non-political power resources and institutions of social self-management. — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 29

Categorization

• XREF: This is the scaffolding for biopolitics/necropolitics: state monopoly of violence plus engineering ambition plus emancipation from social control. Directly feeds the Islamophobia field’s account of state power. — connects to: The Holocaust demonstrated how to liquidate minority and statelessness problems; Social engineering ambition combined with concentrated power produced the Holocaust — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 224; Modernity’s institutions actively enabled and supplied the Holocaust — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 251 (+6 more)
• DEFINE: The claim that ordinary, common factors - unique in their combination rather than their components - produce genocide is the core thesis Bauman will elaborate; a foundational concept for how modernity enables mass exclusion.

Related

• The Holocaust demonstrated how to liquidate minority and statelessness problems (similarity 0.90)
• The Holocaust combined long-festering social tensions with the rational instruments modernity created (similarity 0.89)
• The Holocaust reveals civilization’s capacity for industrialized destruction as inseparable from its progress. (similarity 0.86)
• Social engineering ambition combined with concentrated power produced the Holocaust (similarity 0.86)
• The Holocaust is a by-product of runaway modernist design (similarity 0.86)
• The Holocaust fused antisemitism with social and political mechanisms of an entirely different character. (similarity 0.84)
• The Holocaust functions as a laboratory test revealing modernity’s hidden capacities. (similarity 0.84)
• Modernity’s institutions actively enabled and supplied the Holocaust (similarity 0.84)
• The Holocaust is a product of modern rational society, not a Jewish problem alone (similarity 0.83)
• Theoretical antisemitism matters through its link to state social-engineering ambitions. (similarity 0.83)
• The Holocaust must be read as integral to modernity, not as its aberration. (similarity 0.83)
• Holocaust perpetrators were normal and their institutions socially non-pathological (similarity 0.83)
• The social conditions enabling the Holocaust may still be present. (similarity 0.83)
• The Holocaust was a product of modernity, not pre-modern barbarity. (similarity 0.83)
• Every ingredient enabling the Holocaust was normal for modern civilization (similarity 0.82)

Broader Connections

• Social engineering ambition combined with concentrated power produced the Holocaust #corroborates (0.95) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 224
• The Holocaust combined long-festering social tensions with the rational instruments modernity created #expands (0.90) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 32
• Modernity’s institutions actively enabled and supplied the Holocaust #expands (0.85) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 251
• The Holocaust was rational social management in scientific dress #expands (0.80) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 207
• The Holocaust reveals civilization’s capacity for industrialized destruction as inseparable from its progress. #expands (0.80) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 62
• Holocaust perpetrators were normal and their institutions socially non-pathological #expands (0.75) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 89