The social conditions enabling the Holocaust may still be present.

Evidence

The second reason is that whatever happened to the ‘course of history’, nothing much happened to those products of history which in all probability contained the potentiality of the Holocaust – or at least we cannot be sure that it did. For all we know (or, rather, for all we do not know) they may still be with us, waiting for their chance. We can only suspect that the conditions that once before gave birth to the Holocaust have not been radically transformed. If there was something in our social order which made the Holocaust possible in 1941, we cannot be sure that it has been eliminated since then. — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 243

Categorization

• XREF: The ‘conditions may still be with us’ mechanism connects to biopolitics and necropolitics readings of modern states. — connects to: Even wealthy integrated Jews remained vulnerable as stateless pariahs; The Holocaust is a product of modern rational society, not a Jewish problem alone — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 21; The Holocaust combined long-festering social tensions with the rational instruments modernity created — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 32 (+4 more)
• QUESTION: Worth chasing: how does Bauman’s uncertainty claim get resolved or sharpened in the tradition that follows him?

Related

• The Holocaust is a possibility modernity contains, not its paradigm (similarity 0.86)
• The Holocaust combined long-festering social tensions with the rational instruments modernity created (similarity 0.86)
• None of the societal conditions that made Auschwitz possible has disappeared. (similarity 0.86)
• Modern civilization was a necessary but not sufficient condition of the Holocaust. (similarity 0.85)
• The Holocaust is a by-product of runaway modernist design (similarity 0.85)
• The Holocaust functions as a laboratory test revealing modernity’s hidden capacities. (similarity 0.85)
• The Holocaust must be read as integral to modernity, not as its aberration. (similarity 0.85)
• All Holocaust scholarship is ultimately a debate over modernity’s self-image. (similarity 0.84)
• The Holocaust resulted from distinctly modern social and political conditions (similarity 0.84)
• The Holocaust demonstrated how to liquidate minority and statelessness problems (similarity 0.83)
• Every ingredient enabling the Holocaust was normal for modern civilization (similarity 0.83)
• The Holocaust question must keep its full weight and horror (similarity 0.83)
• Modernity’s institutions actively enabled and supplied the Holocaust (similarity 0.83)
• The Holocaust resulted from an unchained state wielding violence and engineering ambitions (similarity 0.83)
• The Holocaust was a product of modern civilization, not merely its failure (similarity 0.82)

Broader Connections

• The Holocaust is a product of modern rational society, not a Jewish problem alone #expands (0.90) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 21
• The Holocaust combined long-festering social tensions with the rational instruments modernity created #expands (0.85) — 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
• Modern civilization was a necessary but not sufficient condition of the Holocaust. #corroborates (0.75) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 71
• The Holocaust functions as a laboratory test revealing modernity’s hidden capacities. #expands (0.75) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 68
• The Holocaust demonstrated how to liquidate minority and statelessness problems #expands (0.72)