Images of Exclusion and Collective Violence : Radicalism - Fascism - Extremism and Politics of Modern State Violence in the 1940s
Abstract
In my contribution I would like to concentrate on the transformation of images of collective identification with the rise of extreme state policies of collective violence in the so-called long 1940s in Europe - From the consequences of the Great Depression in the early 1930s through the Second World War to the process of destalinization in Eastern Europe in the mid-1950s. During this period, there has been a rise in the perceptions of companies' threats and the associated radical ideas of their recovery through the closure of communal borders.
Among them, all foreign elements should be excluded, with the help of state policies of identification and collective violence of the modern bureaucratic state, while ensuring social welfare for the majority community. Fascist thinking systems and political movements represented only one of the possible manifestations of radical social engineering, economic planning, and extreme policies of violence - which could be traced back to both state and liberal democratic, Soviet or later state-socialist policies.
I would therefore like to reflect on the specifics of the fascist relationship to the policies of social exclusion and collective violence in the conditions of a modern bureaucratic state and radical transformations of the ideas of the national community.