Re: Libération article on Edwin Black

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In einer eMail vom 17.02.01 08:18:57 (MEZ) Mitteleuropäische Zeit schreibt 
o.sell at telda.net:

> Hitler embraced the opportunity
>  of mapping the general idea of achieving higher effectivity through the
>  division of labour to a different coordinate system (GR 159): the nazi 
lager
>  system of organized mass murder -- in which the word "labour" applied to 
the
>  Jews was a synonym for death, as Goldhagen explains in the 12th chapter of
>  his book.
Yes, I have got more and more the impression that "Vernichtung durch Arbeit" 
(annihilation through work/labour) i s   the "hidden curriculum" of the 
industrialized/capitalist kind of "labour" - the Nazis couldn't keep the 
secret for themselves. And this is exactly the way the German philosopher 
Robert Kurz discusses the word "labour" or the "beautiful machine" in his 
book "Schwarzbuch Kapitalismus" (Black Book Capitalism, 1999). Capitalism (or 
more exactly: post-fordist capitalism) is the identity of creation and 
destruction at the same time. There's no difference any longer. 

Kurt-Werner Pörtner