I kind of disagree with everything in @davidfrum's review of Black Earth, but it's a smart, challenging read: https://www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/beyond-the-bloodlands/ …
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Fair to say Hitler's racialized hyper-nationalism came into conflict with earlier nationalist traditions that had some limits & boundaries
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@HeerJeet It seems disingenuous to argue that the Nazis devolved power to Nazi "non-state actors". They were the state.
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@HeerJeet I think Snyder makes an astonishingly compelling case in the book for why Hitler wasn't a nationalist qua essentialist. -
@HeerJeet I think our general unstated equation of Nationalism with essentialism is where Snyder gets traction for the thesis. - Show replies
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@HeerJeet Honestly, you should read the book. I know it sounds like a crazy idea but he makes a profound argument for it.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@HeerJeet The argument is that Hitler wanted to create "trans-state" spaces in which the struggle of ethnicities would be "organic."Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@HeerJeet He believed that Germans would win in that struggle, but there is a strong case that the struggle mattered more to him. -
@StephenMarche Arendt used to argue that too -- that it was struggle-qua-struggle that was the core. - Show replies
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@HeerJeet As in the last days of the war, he really did try to destroy German infrastructure completely. -
@StephenMarche That's true. He thought the Germans had failed him and wanted to see them suffer. Hitler was a real asshole. - Show replies
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