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A Century of Genocide: Utopias of Race and Nation Humans Are Bastards - TV Tropes This is the point of the Universal Century Gundam series where there are more selfish and cruel people in the world than kind noble and selfless ones. Genocide - Wikipedia Genocide is intentional action to destroy a people (usually defined as an ethnic national racial or religious group) in whole or in part. The hybrid word "genocide ... JSTOR: Viewing Subject: History Amount of access 305 Journals in JSTOR Date Range Aboriginal History Scientific racism - Wikipedia Scientific racism (sometimes race biology or racial biology or pseudoscientific racism) is the pseudoscientific study of techniques and hypotheses to support or ... Major Twentieth Century Writers - New York... Major Twentieth Century Writers . Come to Narcissism versus Psychological Depth . Enter the H ell of New York with selections from Camus Morrison and Lili Tomlin. 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Rank: #1078721 in BooksPublished on: 2005-01-23Original language: EnglishNumber of items: 1Dimensions: 1.00" h x 6.10" w x 9.10" l, 1.15 pounds Binding: Paperback368 pages 0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.Great summary of 20th century genocideBy Lehigh History StudentEric Weitz attempts to put together a comprehensive view of the Genocides in the 20th century by looking at the twin foci of racial utopia and nationalism when conceptualizing genocide. This is a shorter book for the subject that was undertaken and given the length does an excellent job of looking at each genocide and tying them together. It starts off with the Armenian Genocide as the future blueprint for the 20th century and then moves onto Russia (under Lenin and Stalin), Nazi Germany, Khemer Rouge in Cambodia and Serbia in the 1990's. Each genocide is given a description without getting caught up in every horrid detail but still showing what was unique and common to each genocide. His main theoretical lens centers on the idea that those committing the genocide were focused on establishing a racial utopia via religion, ideological belief or gender. These races were narrowly defined and built upon the 20th century push of nationalism which is the other lens used to articulate the ways in which this racial utopia was to be achieved. For those looking for a basic overview of 20th century genocide this is a very good place to start.1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.Synthesis not ThesisBy M. L. BennettHistorian Eric Weitz traces themes of utopianism, racism, and nationalism through four genocidal regimes. Allotting one chapter each to the notorious Lenin/Stalin, Hitler, Pol Pot, and Miloseviæ regimes, Weitz follows "population politics" to their historical conclusions.Weitz's deconstruction of the concepts of race and nation is concise and effective, demonstrating the fluidity and modernity of such understandings of human differences. Notably absent from Weitz's book, however, is a clear definition of or even sustained reflection upon the idea of utopia. Weitz largely assumes his reader's familiarity with utopia, and the assumption is crippling for a reader not well-versed in utopian theory. Moreover, the reader who is comfortable with the concept of utopia will be disappointed by the infrequency of actual applications of utopianism to these four regimes. For example, Weitz alludes to the complex juxtaposition of optimism and pessimism in these genocidal regimes without stating that such a paradox is inherently utopian. The word utopia denotes both "a region of happiness and perfection" and "a region that exists nowhere." When nowhere is attempted somewhere, utopia becomes dystopia. The clear progression of each regime from the possibility of utopia to the actuality of dystopia could likewise have been demonstrated, but Weitz also ignores the concept of dystopia.Weitz notes that each regime promulgated and perpetuated a specific ideology, but he fails to demonstrate the manner in which the particular ideological perspective of a regime shaped not only its participation in history but also its construction of "eternity." Each regime came to view individuals through the lens of a determining attribute--namely, these concepts of race or nation. By separating and defining individuals according to an ideology, these regimes were able to exclude large segments of the population either formally or informally, from citizenship. In so doing, each regime was striving for a prescribed homogeneity. Only through achieving such homogeneity would they reach utopia; in this way, genocide is hideously utilitarian. Weitz undoubtedly recognizes but does not clearly delineate this process.At points, Weitz's arguments are weak. For example, Soviet propaganda explicitly rejected racial themes as "zoological thinking." Nonetheless, Weitz characterizes that regime as racist without providing sufficient defense (although the label could be defended). In fact, Weitz even states that the absence of a well-developed racial ideology deterred the possibilities of genocide under Stalin, confounding his argument. Labeling Miloseviæ's regime as "utopian" is also somewhat problematic, as is evident but not explicit in his chapter on Serbia. The concept of utopia is virtually ignored in this chapter, which focuses on negative creation (destruction) rather than positive creation (construction).A Century of Genocide provides a solid overview of ideology and genocide, but is incapable, as structured, of providing an in-depth analysis. With four regimes and at least three major concepts under consideration, Weitz's project is, perhaps, utopian in nature. The ideas behind the book have the potential to make new contributions to genocide studies; as it stands, the book is an excellent work of synthesis rather than the articulation of a new thesis.27 of 28 people found the following review helpful.It lacks somethingBy pnotley@hotmail.comSeveral years ago Eric Weitz wrote a fascinating book about the German Communist Party which argued that its notoriously truculent and dogmatic nature was not simply the result of Stalinist domination, but instead reflected the party's own German traditions as well as an understandable reaction to Weimar's intolerance of them. One would think that Weitz would be an excellent author to write about twentieth-century genocide. But this comparative account of four major genocides is disappointing. By his own admission Weitz does not have sufficient scholarly expertise to study the genocides in Armenia and Rwanda. So instead he looks first at Soviet terror in general and the more specifically genocidal deportations carried out against various nationalities during and after World War Two. Then he looks at Nazi Germany, Pol Pot Cambodia and the Serbian attack on Bosnia. All of his four accounts share certain key similarities. First, all the perpetrators were moved by a utopian ideology. Second, all the perpetrators were in some way or another "modern" and sought to use modern instruments to carry out their crimes. Third, all the genocides took place in periods of profound social and political crisis. Fourth, all the genocides were able to use the mass complicity of the society as a whole. Fifth, all the genocides had their own savage rituals of inhumanity.Not bad, and the discussion of the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany are based on a reasonable discussion of the latest research. But there are some real problems with Weitz's account. For a start consider the "utopian" nature of genocide. Weitz does not define what a "utopia" is. This is rather important, since "utopian" implies the impossible, indeed the impossible that it would be dangerous to attempt. But while the Holocaust was a uniquely cruel atrocity, it was hardly "utopian" since it was, in fact, all too possible to kill 90% of Polish Jewry. More problematically, to what extent can Serbian nationalism be viewed as utopian Undoubtedly some people thought a victorious Greater Serbia would lead to a better future. But the dominant themes in Serbian propaganda were paranoia, fear and self-pity. Instead of looking to a glorious millennium, Serbs concentrated on the "collective guilt" of Croats and Bosnians with Nazism. What Utopias did the Hutus dream of, or the final rulers of the Ottoman Empire have One may agree with Weitz that Hitler and his colleagues believed in a "redemptive" anti-Semitism. But how far did this filter down to his executioners (It strikes me that Arno Mayer's oft-derided "Why did the Heavens Not Darken," about the connection of the Holocaust to a vicious war against Communism, does better at answering this question.) The modernity of "genocide" is also problematic. That is certainly the case with Cambodia. Weitz's focus on ideology and ideological logic does not explain why Pol Pot followed a path that no other Communist party did. At one point Weitz suggests that Pol Pot's policies flowed logically from an ultra-radicalism, yet at other points he notes that he had to purge the Communist party frequently. More importantly, emptying the cities and abolishing money does not strike me as clever plans to destroy the ancien regime while following Democratic Kamuchea's own path to industrial modernity.There are other problems. While genocide is understandably linked to war and crisis, this is not always the case. When destroying half of the population of what is now Congo, Belgium faced no imminent threat, nor did it carry out its crimes for any other reason than greed. Too much concentration on utopia and conflation of it with "fanaticism" leads to tautology. We condemn genocides as acts of fanaticism, and then define as fanatical genocidal acts. Weitz's discussion of the Yugoslav crisis does not really explain why so many Serbs and other Yugoslavs would support a policy that would definitely make the new nations considerably less than the sum of their parts. At one point Weitz mentions that Yugoslavia had a weaker civil society than, say, Poland or East Germany. But what distinguished pre-Milosevic Yugoslavia was not an especially brutal Communist regime. Indeed, the opposite was the case. Nor did Milosevic Serbia lack opposition parties and an independent church. There were no shortage of Serbs who denounced Milosevic, but a profound shortage of those who denounced Srebnica, and Weitz does not really explain why. At times Weitz's arguments are weak. He discusses popular complicity with genocidal crimes, though his main example for Nazi Germany actually takes place in Lithuania. He takes an example of one Serbian thug who comments that a victim looks like a cabbage and generalizes that this how all Serbian fighters viewed Bosnians. This is part of a larger problem with Weitz's discussion of ritual. Much of what he says about tortures and the rituals of atrocities is true, much of it is obvious, much of it is fashionable, but none of it is new or original. Likewise the accounts of genocide, while obviously horrific, do not really get us close to the minds of the perpetrators. Ultimately this is a book that adds little to our knowledge.See all 8 customer reviews... Political theory pdf - SlideShare Political theory pdf 1. POLITICAL THEORY 2. 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