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Why Arendt Matters: Revisiting “The Origins of Totalitarianism” – Los Angeles Review of Books

In a system of #terror, the concentration and extermination camps are not simply accidental occurrences, but the logical outcomes of a system that insists on the extinction of and human #spontaneity. Over and over again, Arendt insists that the concentration camps were useless from a utilitarian perspective. The Nazis and Bolsheviks could have killed prisoners and undesirables more easily in fields or villages. The camps were economically expensive and a waste of manpower. What the camps provided was training and experimentation in what absolute terror and undefined terror could accomplish — the denial of reality and the breaking of the #humanspirit. … 

Los Angeles Review of Books: Why Arendt Matters: Revisiting “The Origins of Totalitarianism”

Why Arendt Matters: Revisiting “The Origins of Totalitarianism” – Los Angeles Review of Books