Re: [Marxism] A Turk comments on Erdogan at Davos,

[Mehmet Cagatay <mehmetcagatayaydin@xxxxxxxxx>]

"By his courageous stand ErdoÄan has unified a badly divided nation."

...

"The defenders of ethical ideology are so determined to
locate the singularity of the extermination directly in Evil
that they generally deny, categorically, that Nazism was a
political sequence. But this position is both feeble and
cowardly. Feeble, because the constitution of Nazism as a
'massive' subjectivity integrating the word Jew as part of a
political configuration is what made the extermination possible,
and then inevitable. Cowardly, because it is impossible
to think politics through to the end if we refuse to envisage
the possibility of political sequences whose organic categories
and subjective prescriptions are criminal. The partisans
of the 'democracy of human rights' are fond - with Hannah
Arendt - of defining politics as the stage of a 'beingtogether'.
It is with regard to this definition, incidentally,
that they fail to grasp the political essence of Nazism. But
this definition is merely a fairy-tale - all the more so since 
the being-together must first determine the collective
[ensemble] concerned, and this is the whole question.
Nobody desired the being-together of the Germans more
than Hitler. The Nazi category of the 'Jew' served to name
the German interior, the space of a being-together, via the
(arbitrary yet prescriptive) construction of an exterior that
could be monitored from the interior -just as the certainty
of being 'all French together' presupposes that we persecute,
here and now, those who fall under the category of
'illegal immigrant'." 

Badiou, Ethics



      

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