
Hannah Arendt’s ”The Origins of Totalitarianism” (Part 1/6)
Theory & Philosophy
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Part Two, Anti Semitism
In pre totalitarian states, anti semitism might just be the way we described it, viewing jewish people as a race that is somehow sub human and therefore a ripe for crimination. Now in totalitarian anti semitism, that still remains. However, there is a strong emphasis on conspiracy theories in order to draw condo, fake attention to jewish people when they in fact did not. And so it may be that people within a totalitarian system do not actually believe in the things that they are saying. They are just putting forward these conspiracy theories inorder to justify their own a striving towards global power.
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