![]() ![]() ![]() The corrupt civil servants may be a parasite on society, but they do not rule it. She makes the important distinction between a bureaucracy proper and the deformation or corruption of civil services. Here Arendt further fleshes out the concept of bureaucracy. While bureaucracy in a distinct imperial territory could separate the lawlessness of, for example, India from the common law upheld in Britain, the pan-movements of the continent had to be explicitly hostile to law in general in order to create or support any similar type of bureaucracy. ![]() Furthermore, due to this proximity to the home government, continental imperialism had to be much more explicit and open about its disregard for the law. Unlike its siblings, the pan-movements were the offspring of continental imperialism and formed the clear spiritual precursors to Nazism and Bolshevism (Stalinism): Pan-Germanism and Pan-Slavism.Ĭontinental imperialism, as opposed to overseas imperialism, is distinguished by the belief that expansion must not include geographical distance between the colony and the nation. We have already briefly discussed the first two, but Arendt begins this section with discussion of the third. The three integral components of imperialism that would find another life in totalitarian movements are racism, bureaucracy and the "pan-" movements. ![]()
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