Political Science 1020E Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Amartya Sen, Aryan Race, Mary Wollstonecraft
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Lebenstraum (living space: the german people have the right to expand across europe to expel people such as the jewish. Racism and anti-sematic: nazism is the means to an end, the end being the survival and supremacy of the aryan race. One group is a victim whose enemies must be attacked. Fear liberalism, class conflict, and other alien forces. Promote community integration by violence if necessary. Need for authority by natural (male) leaders embodying a groups destiny. Superiority of leader"s instincts over abstract and universal reason. Celebration of violence and will when devoted to the groups success. Right of the chosen people to dominate others without restraint. Eliminating the subordination of women: different kinds of feminists have different ideas about subordination is, against patriarchy/ rule by men. Sex and gender: biology distinguished from culture. Politics is about public life, the family and personal relationships are private.