Origins of Totalitarianism (#3, 2023) The Jews, the Nation-State, and the Birth of Antisemitism

ORIGINS OF TOTALITARIANISM
Friday, Sept. 8
The Three Prefaces to the Origins of Totalitarianism
Friday, Sept. 15
No Meeting: Rosh Hashanah
Friday Sept. 22
Chapter One: Antisemitism as an Outrage to Common Sense
Friday, Sept. 29
Chapter Two: The Jews, the Nation-State, and the Birth of Antisemitism
Friday, Oct. 6
Chapter Three: The Jews and Society
Friday, Oct. 13
No Meeting: Annual Conference
Friday, Oct. 20
Chapter Four: The Dreyfus Affair
Friday, Oct. 27
Chapter Five: The Political Emancipation of the Bourgeoisie
Friday, Nov. 3
Chapter 6: Race-Thinking Before Racism
Friday, Nov. 10
No VRG
Friday, Nov. 17
Chapter 7: Race and Bureaucracy
Friday, Nov. 24
No Meeting: Thanksgiving Break
Friday, Dec. 1
No Meeting
Friday, Dec. 8
Chapter 8: Continental Imperialism: the Pan-Movements
Friday, Dec. 15
Chapter 9: The Decline of the Nation-State and the End of the Rights of Man
Winter Break
Friday, Jan. 12
Chapter 10: A Classless Society
Friday, Jan. 19
Chapter 11: The Totalitarian Movement
Friday, Jan. 26
Chapter 12: Totalitarianism in Power
Friday, Feb. 2
Chapter 13: Ideology and Terror: A Novel Form of Government Bibliography
Friday, Feb. 9
The Alternative Epilogues

[@newyorkone3584]

What I find so curious is the failure to factor in Christian anti-semitism which the Nazi’s capitalized on. A great example is Poland which were segregating, dehumanising and murdering them. Such beliefs which demonized Jews are very real in 2023 Poland. This I think is a huge omission.

[@dannyboyincel]

It's was a war my friend

[@septology]

And this is something very insightful in Arendt - which is the idea that Modern Antisemitism has very little relation to "religious Jew-hate". Antisemites are not basing their beliefs of religious beliefs, and when we see them cite things that seem religious (e.g. Blood Libel) it's downstream of their Antisemitism rather than the cause of it.

[@AudioPervert1]

People in Israel should be listening and understanding this, more than non-jewish people.

[@piezoification]

You can not address these chapters if you don't establish what Jewish is, why must totalitarians of western Europe destroy it? In another sense why can't the inculcatation of social forms of anti Semitism suffice for the purposes of total political power? A plank of antisemitism suggests a difference from a faction that rejects the explicit politicization of antisemitism. I.e. a distinctly Jewish threat. Of course the real threat to total power is not merely the social attitudes - it seems obvious that the Jewish members of society could ever without ceasing to be Jewish be relied upon, tolerate, or contribute politically to a totalitarian political order - why? Christians and maybe other subctures are politically innocuous? Or in other words, and mostly in tact socially, historically they proved willing agents in the construction of 2 out of 5 of the world's "most" totalitarian empires with little threat to their identity- internally problematic as that is.

[@jaysphilosophy1951]

Judeausm is a middle eastern religion, largely associated with communism in my opinion. But the nation state is important if you want to have roots in a place with customs and culture. She makes it too complicated. Arendt hated the nation state.

[@AudioPervert1]

Even if it was Mongolian or martian, it still has all the ugly characteristics of organized religion. Duty. Obedience. Less Rights For Women and Children. And Totally Top Down.
Big deal if it's that complicated.