Hannah Arendt's "The Origins of Totalitarianism" (Part 3/6)

[@Mosaic631]

Yes this just made my Saturday. Been waiting for part 3 please keep these coming!

[@jeczaja]

Classism plus racism: Gobineau "An Essay on the Inequality of the Human Races". In it he argued aristocrats were superior to commoners, and that aristocrats possessed more Aryan genetic traits because of less interbreeding with inferior races. 24 years before Hitler was born.

[@gregpappas]

Some of your best.

[@lumierephil]

Thanks so much for this man! I am working on a paper on Arendt - this has been super helpful

[@DallasKelly1974]

Great job. Thanks for doing these!

[@tcmackgeorges12]

Hey David, seeing that you’ve done 2 videos going over all of black skins white masks, I was wondering if you would do a key concepts video on Sociogeny

[@VirtueInEternity]

very good video series, friend

[@DilanazGüler]

Thank you for this!

[@AshleyGraetz]

Can you do the opposite of distopian

[@fredwelf8650]

Defining the difference between colonization and imperialism is important. Cololnization, or colonialism, is military occupation, whereas Imperialism involves hegemony by several other means continuing the military presence, or removing it, and maintaining trade agreements like maquiladora or extraction policies. The beef concerning Jews was that they ran the stock markets. The question of slavery should not be dismissed in the totalitarian discussion; the law designating large groups of people as without-law, without protection of the law or state, is pertinent to Arendt's argument. 50 years before Oriana Fallaci was shut down for claiming that Europe was being overrun by Muslims, Hitler claimed France was an African state: "Looked at purely from the territorial point of view, the area comprised in the German Reich is insignificant in comparison with the other States that are called World Powers. England must not be cited here as an example to contradict this statement; for the English motherland is in reality the great metropolis of the British World Empire, which owns almost a fourth of the earth’s surface. Next to this we must consider the American Union as one of the foremost among the colossal States, also Russia and China. These are enormous spaces, some of which are more than ten times greater in territorial extent than the present German Reich. France must also be ranked among these colossal States. Not only because she is adding to the strength of her army in a constantly increasing measure by recruiting coloured troops from the population of her gigantic empire, but also because France is racially becoming more and more negroid, so much so that now one can actually speak of the creation of an African State on European soil. The contemporary colonial policy of France cannot be compared with that of Germany in the past. If France develops along the lines it has taken in our day, and should that development continue for the next three hundred years, all traces of French blood will finally be submerged in the formation of a Euro-African Mulatto State. This would represent a formidable and compact colonial territory stretching from the Rhine to the Congo, inhabited by an inferior race which had developed through a slow and steady process of bastardization."

[@gpalmer456]

Ja Rule 😂

[@danuall5816]

Livin' It Up through The Totalitarianism..