Totalitarian power mechanisms extend liberal Western techniques rather than inventing them

Evidence

Speaking of the relationship between the two, Foucault remarked in 1978: “Western societies, which are in general the industrial and developed societies of the late nineteenth century, are societies that are haunted by this secret fear, or even by quite explicitly rebellious movements that call into question that sort of overproduction of power that Stalinism and fascisms no doubt demonstrate in a naked, monstrous fashion.” And shghtly earlier in the same lecture: “Of course fascism and Stalinism were both responses to a precise and very specific situation. Of course fascism and Stalinism expanded their effects to hitherto unknown dimensions, and it is, if not to be rationally expected, at least to be hoped, that we will never see their like again. They are therefore unique phenomena, but it cannot be denied that, in many respects, fascism and Stalinism simply extended a whole series of mechanisms that already existed in the social and political systems of the West. After all, the organization of great parties, the development of political apparatuses, and the existence of techniques of repression such as ’ labor camps, all that is quite clearly the heritage of liberal Western societies, and all Stalinism and fascism had to do was to stoop down and pick it up.” There would therefore appear to be a very strange kinship between “liberal societies” and totalitarian States, or between the normal and the pathological, and sooner or later it must be investigated. — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 291

Categorization

• XREF: Contradicts the common-sense Islamophobia-frame assumption that totalitarian exclusion is categorically foreign to Western democratic rationality; connects to biopolitics/necropolitics readings. — connects to: A new power mechanism, incompatible with sovereignty, was invented in the 17th-18th centuries — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 53
• QUESTION: What does this kinship imply for how Islamophobia’s exclusions in liberal democracies inherit ‘liberal’ bureaucratic machinery rather than only ‘Islamic’ or ‘fascistic’ sources?

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• A new power mechanism, incompatible with sovereignty, was invented in the 17th-18th centuries (similarity 0.80)