government. National Socialist totalitarianism was in part a response precisely to Again, the failure of political, social, and cultural elites to contain and control this proliferation of voices, interests, and influence groups.108 Democratic checks in countries like the US ensure no slippery slope to biopolitical extermination Ojakangas, (Mike Ojakangas, Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, in Foucault Studies No. 2 2005 ‘5 p. http://www.foucault-studies.com/no2/ojakangas1.pdf) states passed compulsory sterilization laws in the A comparative framework can help us to clarify this point. Other 1930s — Yet they did not proceed to the next steps indeed, individual states in the United States had already begun doing so in 1907. adopted by National Socialism mass sterilization, mass abortion and murder of the Individual figures in, — “eugenic” “defective.” neither the political structures of democratic states nor their for example, the U.S. did make such suggestions. But legal and political principles permitted such policies actually being enacted. Nor did the scale of forcible in a sterilization in other countries match that of the Nazi program. I do not mean to suggest that such programs were not horrible; but democratic political context they did not develop the dynamic of constant radicalization and escalation that characterized Nazi policies.
government. Again, National Socialist totalitarianism was in part a response precisely to the failure of political, social, and cultural elites to contain and control this proliferation of voices, interests, and influence groups.108 Democratic checks in countries like the US ensure no slippery slope to biopolitical extermination Ojakangas, ‘5 (Mike Ojakangas, Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, in Foucault Studies No. 2 2005 p. http://www.foucault-studies.com/no2/ojakangas1.pdf) A comparative framework can help us to clarify this point. Other states passed compulsory sterilization laws in the 1930s — indeed, individual states in the United States had already begun doing so in 1907. Yet they did not proceed to the next steps adopted by National Socialism — mass sterilization, mass “eugenic” abortion and murder of the “defective.” Individual figures in, for example, the U.S. did make such suggestions. But neither the political structures of democratic states nor their legal and political principles permitted such policies actually being enacted. Nor did the scale of forcible sterilization in other countries match that of the Nazi program. I do not mean to suggest that such programs were not horrible; but in a democratic political context they did not develop the dynamic of constant radicalization and escalation that characterized Nazi policies.
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