Total domination begins by stripping people of legal personhood, not by killing them
Evidence
The first essential step on the road to total domination is to kill the juridical person in man. This was done, on the one hand, by putting certain categories of people outside the protection of the law and forcing at the same time, through the instrument of denationalization, the nontotalitarian world into recognition of lawlessness; it was done, on the other, by placing the concentration camp outside the normal penal system, and by selecting its inmates outside the normal judicial procedure in which a definite crime entails a predictable penalty. ā Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 1004
Categorization
Category: Definitional Content
- DEFINE: Defines what Arendt means by ākilling the juridical personā ā removal from legal protection and from calculable judicial procedure.
- XREF: Directly feeds the Islamophobia fieldās account of how states produce statelessness and legal exclusion before physical violence.
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- Totalitarian domination begins by destroying a personās juridical standing (similarity 0.93)
- Totalitarian domination aims to make all people equally superfluous (similarity 0.81)
- Totalitarian regimes require global rule to fully dominate even one individual. (similarity 0.81)
- Totalitarian rule requires destroying all autonomous activity, not merely equalizing conditions (similarity 0.80)
- Totalitarian domination exceeds utilitarian rule into the realm where everything is possible (similarity 0.78)