Totalitarianism

Branch of phenomenology ...


Hannah Arent thought that the Holocaust was normal; the idea of death factories on an industrial scale where hair is shaved for clothing, gold from teeth are used as currency and calcium is extracted from bones. A factory was put outside every city in Europe and no one resisted until the Soviet army stopped it.

Th romantic 'Dickens' idea, that most schooling depicts is that Hitler was a mad genius that hypnotised all Germans. In fact everyone was involved in some small way, like the people that booked the trains that transported so many Jews. Some citizens would collaborate for the chance of better life an attitude of  'just doing our jobs'.

Stalin was eventually accused of mass murder, in the ideology of Hannah Arent, instead of helping peasants we should kill them just as gypsies are a problem today. Or what about the Siberian prisons where there was no desire to escape and nowhere to escape to. The prisoners dug the 800 mile White Sea Canal which took five years, Benson and Hedges equivalent cigars were named after this canal; Stalin's way of celebrating. Perhaps economy can only survive on essential slave labour.

Organised mass murder on an industrial scale is what you get from Marxism. 

Lets look into a communist quota; one third of Winchester residents must become 'slaves', and must be sent to work at the gulag. A rule is decided at random, as of today it is illegal to wear pink socks, maybe  tomorrow drinking tea without sugar is an offence, and perhaps next week bow ties are a no no. Those who break these instantaneous rules are sent off to live a life of hard labour. This is the system of Hannah Ardent.

Forget films such as 'Life is Beautiful' or 'Schindlers List' and get a grip with 'Shoah', see http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090015/plot summary and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5W0WcZu9O74.

People turned themselves in for minor crimes as to avoid being selected for bigger crimes and the longer sentences that went with them.

Look at Animal Farm by George Orwell.