>I would have said that Nazism actually exemplifies the tendency of modern
>society to rationalise and bureaucratise power. Look at the way the death
>camps operated: this wasn't a spur of the moment decision - there was a
>vast bureaucratic machine keeping these camps running. True there was a
>charismatic leader - but theoretically the party could have continued
>without Hitler once it had consolidated power.
>
We have been over this before on the list. Adolph Hitler, did indeed use
modernist technocratic rationalty but he himself was into mysticism and all
that Jazz. I quote:
"We stand at the end of the age of reason. A new era of mystical explanation
of the world is rising".
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Colin Wight
Department of International Politics
University of Wales, Aberystwyth
Aberystwyth
SY23 3DA
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>society to rationalise and bureaucratise power. Look at the way the death
>camps operated: this wasn't a spur of the moment decision - there was a
>vast bureaucratic machine keeping these camps running. True there was a
>charismatic leader - but theoretically the party could have continued
>without Hitler once it had consolidated power.
>
We have been over this before on the list. Adolph Hitler, did indeed use
modernist technocratic rationalty but he himself was into mysticism and all
that Jazz. I quote:
"We stand at the end of the age of reason. A new era of mystical explanation
of the world is rising".
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Colin Wight
Department of International Politics
University of Wales, Aberystwyth
Aberystwyth
SY23 3DA
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