Desire, acceptance, and will to exterminate: on the ultimate foundations of exterminist violence
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https://doi.org/10.21501/22161201.4094Keywords:
Violence, Exclusion, Inclusion, Exterminism, Collective Violence, Social Darwinism, Social theoryAbstract
Simple exterminist brutality is one of the constants that characterize modern history. The aim of this article is to approach the understanding of the ultimate foundations of exterminist violence, that is, what is behind the wish and the will to exterminate. To this end we analyze the works of Spencer, Sumner, and de Maistre. The strategy adopted in these pages aims to transform the events of the last two hundred years into presences, along with current events, setting them all in motion. The article argues that the keys to understanding this phenomenon lie in the complex relationships between inclusion-exclusion/expulsion/extermination, which are traversed by a set of discourses and practices: competition and the legitimization of inequality, hierarchy, the ontology of death, denial and complicity. We conclude with the typical-ideal picture of two social scenarios and their relationships with exterminist dynamics: one based on inclusion and the other based on exclusion/expulsion.
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