The nation-state’s inability to protect the stateless lets persecutors impose their values

Evidence

Denationalization became a powerful weapon of totalitarian politics, and the constitutional inability of European nation-states to guarantee human rights to those who had lost nationally guaranteed rights, made it possible for the persecuting governments to impose their standard of values even upon their opponents. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 671

Categorization

Category: Causal Relationships

• DEFINE: Defines denationalization as a political weapon — the nation-state’s structural limit becomes totalitarianism’s operating lever.
• XREF: Builds the biopolitics toolkit: state power over who counts as a rights-bearing subject.

Related

• Loss of national rights and human rights are experienced as identical by the stateless. (similarity 0.82)
• Rising national consciousness transformed the state from legal instrument into national instrument (similarity 0.79)
• The French Revolution fused human rights with national sovereignty, making statelessness mean rightlessness. (similarity 0.78)
• The inability to treat stateless people as legal persons threatens all citizens’ legal equality (similarity 0.78)
• Modern statelessness strips rights more radically than medieval outlawry ever did (similarity 0.78)
• Statelessness destroys the structure of legal national institutions and inverts civilized values (similarity 0.78)