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Feb 3 |
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How has Chinese GDP as a percentage of world GDP changed over time and why? "Setting hordes of young, largely semi-literate, thugs to torture and maim the productive and educated members of society will do wonders for the economy." This strategy actually works fairly well if you exclude the victimised portion from the imperialist portion of GDP measures, see India or Ireland's GDPs in the 19th century. Also works if the "victors" of such a civil war implement "more productive" relations of production (human suffering is of course an externality), see Ireland there, or the "settler societies." So not a universal, but right about the Cultural Revolution. |
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Jan 30 |
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What was wrong with Hitler's left hand? rolled back to a previous revision |
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Jan 24 |
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How do functionalists explain the fact that Holocaust continued until the very end of the war? let us continue this discussion in chat |
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Jan 23 |
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How do functionalists explain the fact that Holocaust continued until the very end of the war? For further fun in synthesis, look up the Police Battalion studies. The Police Battalions had an age profile in their 40s and 50s, with a political spread matching German society. And they still volunteered (volunteered mind) to go on Jew hunts. Whether Jew hunting was anti-semitic or not is up in the air; but, older men whose politics were formed in pre-NSDAP society and whose politics match the German spectrum volunteered to engage in genocide. Not Goldhagen's thesis, but a worrying one for the idea of "stable older citizens" preventing extremism. |
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Jan 23 |
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How do functionalists explain the fact that Holocaust continued until the very end of the war? When I read Goldhagen last, his claims about a deep failure in German character was mediated by his evidence about the development of the genocide apparatus as an institution over time (particularly the incompetence of the action-based programme in 1941). That reads as "functionalism" to me. If the "intention" is universal, then isn't the State truly and genuinely representing The Folk's interest? In what sense is it meaningful to talk about an NSDAP or German Government ideology intending the holocaust if the intention is universal throughout German society? |
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Jan 23 |
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How do functionalists explain the fact that Holocaust continued until the very end of the war? Removing the particularity of the German extermination programme targeting Jews from the general context of German extermination programmes. So, the concealment of the general features of the camp systems, including the Soviet POW camps and Slavic labour camps, beneath the particularity of—for example—Auschwitz. Similarly avoiding "anti-partisan" warfare (the general massacre of civilians), particularly in the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia, when discussing pogroms. |
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Jan 23 |
answered | How do functionalists explain the fact that Holocaust continued until the very end of the war? |
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How do functionalists explain the fact that Holocaust continued until the very end of the war? edited tags |
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Jan 23 |
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How do functionalists explain the fact that Holocaust continued until the very end of the war? Good question. Good issue with functionalist interpretations. |
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Jan 21 |
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Aside from the Jews, did Hitler had a final solution plan for other ethnicities / races in the Third Reich? @J.Katzwinkel its remarkable then the rapidity with which general German racialism assimilated anti-Slavic exterminationalist racialism between 1939 (when mass executions of ethnic Poles was atypical) and 1941 (when mass executions of people of Slavic ethnicities became typical). I'll agree that there are performative elements of anti-semitism that differ from anti-slavic racialism—torturing the imaginary Slav with pointless work-to-death didn't occur (to my memory). But anti-slavic extermination policies sprang up across administrative boundaries within the German state rapidly. |
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Jan 21 |
answered | Why didn't mercenary combat after the middle ages lead to the collapse of the ruling class? |
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Jan 21 |
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Aside from the Jews, did Hitler had a final solution plan for other ethnicities / races in the Third Reich? I strongly suggest you read about the Intentionalist / Functionalist debates in the historiography of the holocaust. |
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Aside from the Jews, did Hitler had a final solution plan for other ethnicities / races in the Third Reich? Expand to assist in relation to comments. |
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Jan 21 |
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Aside from the Jews, did Hitler had a final solution plan for other ethnicities / races in the Third Reich? "Aside from the Jews, did Hitler had a final solution plan for other ethnicities / races in the Third Reich?" Regarding points other than intentionalism, I've expanded my answer. |
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Jan 21 |
answered | Aside from the Jews, did Hitler had a final solution plan for other ethnicities / races in the Third Reich? |
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Jan 21 |
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Jan 21 |
answered | Was Japan really part of the Axis? |
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