RELS 349 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Political Religion, Totalitarianism, Sanctification
10 Oct 2018
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The structure of national socialism part 1. Gentile reference 2004: fascism, totalitarianism, and political religion. Important to see the nazis as structured. Other writes portray nazis as unstructured groups. There was a very clear structure to fascism and national socialist organizations. Violence was a way of attaining their goals that were conceptualized. Violence was not random, it was thought out and had a purpose to create a new man, and a new civilization, this was going to be a form of regeneration. Reactionary is someone who wants to go back to the past. They are often depicted and called reactionaries. They wanted to start with what is here now, and move forward. This is seen in works of leni reifenshtahl. A totalizing movement, seen as an experiment in political domination (emphasis always on new) Something that will dominate every aspect of life.
