A Century of Genocide

[S.R. Prozak]

There's still 6 billion fucking people. Can't we have a little MORE genocide, please?

----- Original Message -----
From: Dave Monroe <davidmmonroe at yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2003 11:07:21 -0700 (PDT)
To: pynchon-l at waste.org
Subject: A Century of Genocide

> Weitz, Eric D.  A Century of Genocide:
>    Utopias of Race and Nation.  Princeton, NJ:
>    Princeton UP, 2003. 
> 
> Why did the twentieth century witness unprecedented 
> organized genocide? Can we learn why genocide is
> perpetrated by comparing different cases of genocide?
> Is the Holocaust unique, or does it share causes and
> features with other cases of state-sponsored mass
> murder? Can genocide be prevented? 
>   
> Blending gripping narrative with trenchant analysis,
> Eric Weitz investigates four of the twentieth
> century's major eruptions of genocide: the Soviet
> Union under Stalin, Nazi Germany, Cambodia under the
> Khmer Rouge, and the former Yugoslavia. Drawing on
> historical sources as well as trial records, memoirs,
> novels, and poems, Weitz explains the prevalence of
> genocide in the twentieth century-and shows how and
> why it became so systematic and deadly. 
>   
> Weitz depicts the searing brutality of each genocide
> and traces its origins back to those most powerful
> categories of the modern world: race and nation. He
> demonstrates how, in each of the cases, a strong state
> pursuing utopia promoted a particular mix of extreme
> national and racial ideologies. In moments of intense
> crisis, these states targeted certain national and
> racial groups, believing that only the annihilation of
> these "enemies" would enable the dominant group to
> flourish. And in each instance, large segments of the
> population were enticed to join in the often
> ritualistic actions that destroyed their neighbors. 
>   
> http://www.pupress.princeton.edu/titles/7491.html 
> 
> 
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