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War is fundamentally political, and is by no means necessarily mastered by economics. Contra Karl Marl, what mattered to the victims of Auschwitz or Hiroshima was not who controlled the means of production, but who controlled the means of destruction. The Nazis clarified Marx's mistake with a perfect inversion: the mastery of the political over the economic "means of production". Auschwitz was the civilized organization of the means of destruction fitted to a people who had relinquished a truly political existence.
"The distinction of friend and enemy", Carl Schmitt maintained, "denotes the utmost degree of intensity of a union or separation, of an association or disassociation." The Nazi revolution attempted to reverse the feministic degeneration of men into economic animals and to reconstitute men as truly political animals. It was precisely from this political view that Jews, submerged in the economic, appeared as non-humans. If man is a "political animal" then Jews were subhuman insofar as Jews were subpolitical. Subordinating and dominating the subpolitical, Auschwitz actualized the Nazi estimation of the Jews as political nothingness.
Hitler once said that if Jews did not exist, they would have to be invented. An enemy was needed so Nazis could define themselves as being above something they believed they were not. By alienating Jews as the embodiment of modern alienation, Hitler unified the Germans.
"They [people in general] would not have known the name of justice if these things [unjust things] did not exist", observed the ancient Greek philosopher Heraclitus.
Opposites define one another:
"Disease makes health pleasant and good, hunger satiety, weariness rest." By idealizing Jewish influence as disease, Germans were able to define their ideal state of health by contrast. Only radical hatred of the Jews could elicit radical Nazi self-love.
Jews were idealized as the negation of Nazi-Germans, the embodiment of evil and enemy. Nazi propaganda bred a life-generating myth of a Nazi master race through a death-generating myth about a Jewish anti-race. In the eyes of Nazi-Germans, the life of Jews was drawn from their souls long before it was drawn from their bodies.
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Quote from Mitchell Heisman’s Suicide Note
@cromagnon
War is fundamentally political, and is by no means necessarily mastered by economics. Contra Karl Marl, what mattered to the victims of Auschwitz or Hiroshima was not who controlled the means of production, but who controlled the means of destruction. The Nazis clarified Marx's mistake with a perfect inversion: the mastery of the political over the economic "means of production". Auschwitz was the civilized organization of the means of destruction fitted to a people who had relinquished a truly political existence.
"The distinction of friend and enemy", Carl Schmitt maintained, "denotes the utmost degree of intensity of a union or separation, of an association or disassociation." The Nazi revolution attempted to reverse the feministic degeneration of men into economic animals and to reconstitute men as truly political animals. It was precisely from this political view that Jews, submerged in the economic, appeared as non-humans. If man is a "political animal" then Jews were subhuman insofar as Jews were subpolitical. Subordinating and dominating the subpolitical, Auschwitz actualized the Nazi estimation of the Jews as political nothingness.
Hitler once said that if Jews did not exist, they would have to be invented. An enemy was needed so Nazis could define themselves as being above something they believed they were not. By alienating Jews as the embodiment of modern alienation, Hitler unified the Germans.
"They [people in general] would not have known the name of justice if these things [unjust things] did not exist", observed the ancient Greek philosopher Heraclitus.
Opposites define one another:
"Disease makes health pleasant and good, hunger satiety, weariness rest." By idealizing Jewish influence as disease, Germans were able to define their ideal state of health by contrast. Only radical hatred of the Jews could elicit radical Nazi self-love.
Jews were idealized as the negation of Nazi-Germans, the embodiment of evil and enemy. Nazi propaganda bred a life-generating myth of a Nazi master race through a death-generating myth about a Jewish anti-race. In the eyes of Nazi-Germans, the life of Jews was drawn from their souls long before it was drawn from their bodies.
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Quote from Mitchell Heisman’s Suicide Note
@cromagnon
