Isidor Wallimann

Genocide and the modern age : etiology and case studies of mass death

Acknowledgments Introduction by Isidor Walliman and Michael N. Dobkowski Part I--Conceptualizing, Classifying, Defining and Explaining Genocide: Some Macro Perspectives A Typology of Genocide and Some Implications for the Human Rights Agenda by Kurt Jonassohn and Frank Chalk Human Destructiveness and Politics: The Twentieth Century as an Age of Genocide by Roger W. Smith The Etiology of Genocides by Barbara Harff Genocide and the Reconstruction of Social Theory: Observations on the Exclusivity of Collective Death by Irving Louis Horowitz Genocide, The Holocaust, and Triage by John K. Roth Genocide and Total War: A Preliminary Comparison by Eric Markusen Social Madness by Ronald Aronson Part II--Understanding Occurrences of Genocide: Some Case Studies and Investigations of Related Social Processes Was the Holocaust Unique? A Peculiar Question? by Alan Rosenberg The Holocaust and Historical Explanation by Robert G.L. Waite Discrimination, Persecution, Theft, and Murder under Color of Law: The Totalitarian Corruption of the German Legal System, 1933-1945 by Gunter W. Remmling Relations of Genocide: Land and Lives in the Colonization of Australia by Tony Barta Middleman Minorities and Genocide by Walter P. Zenner Afterword: Genocide and Civilization by Richard Rubenstein Bibliographical Essay About the Contributors

On Max Weber's Definition of Power

-Talcott Parsons ( 1968 : 6~6) : ’The probability within a social relationship of being able to secure one’s own ends even against opposition’. -Talcott Parsons and A. M. Henderson ( 1965 : 1 ~2): ’The probability that one actor within a social relationship will be in a position to carry out his own will despite resistance, regardless of the basis on which this probability rests’.’ -Reinhard Bendix ( 1962 : 290): ’The possibility of imposing one’s will upon the behavior of other persons’. -Julien Freund ( 1969 : 2’? 11~ : ’The probability that one actor within a social relationship will be in a position to carry out his own will despite resistance’.2 -Peter M. Blau ( 1963) : ’The ability of a person to impose his will upon others despite resistance’. -Raymond Aron ( 1964: 101 ) : ’The chance of obtaining the obedience of others to a particular command.’3 -Dennis H. Wrong (1970: 54): ’The probability that one actor within a social relationship will be in a position to carry out his own will despite resistance, regardless of the basis on which this probability rests’.

Social economy: Community action towards social integration and the prevention of unemployment and poverty

Abstract In these times, when unemployment, marginalization and poverty are spreading while world capitalism takes its course, new approaches for guaranteeing subsistence at the community level need to be explored. Social economy provides people with an alternative which is work-intensive, equitable, and integrative. It is based on the principles of grass-roots democracy and can be facilitated through community-based social work. First, this paper outlines how social economy can be constituted and developed. Secondly, it describes successful community-based business enterprises and federations of social co-operatives in Switzerland, Germany and Italy. These profiles provide evidence that community workers can and must help to create, reinstate, and redesign social, political, and economic bonds within the community.

Environmental Policy is Social Policy – Social Policy is Environmental Policy

This book argues that social and environmental policy should be treated as one and the same field, that both are but two aspects of the same coin – if sustainability is the goal. This paradigm shift is indicated, important, and timely to effectively move toward sustainability.

Can the World Industrialization Project Be Sustained

The subject addressed here must be one of the most pressing and significant that humanity has been confronted with so far. Yet, only few attempts are underway and little effort is spent to analyze the dangers we face and to develop strategies designed to avert the looming catastrophe. I would like to maintain that world industrialization and urbanization and its associated social systems and techniques—such as the universal market system or centralized planning bureaucracies—cannot be sustained except for a relatively few privileged people and at the cost of increased mass death which may include the practice of genocide. The alternative, namely, to abandon the global industrialization project and to begin a move away from industrial society as it is known today, equally entails a risk of mass death on a tremendous scale.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website.

Social and solidarity economy for sustainable development: its premises – and the Social Economy Basel example of practice

The social and solidarity economy (SSE) is a viable strategy in dealing with some contemporary problems known both in industrial and developing countries. SSE is contextualized against the background of recent developments: the liberalization of goods and capital flows worldwide, continued industrialization, and the increased global division of labour. Addressed is how local populations could reach certain objectives and satisfy certain needs using techniques characteristic of SSE and, thus, carve out a social and economic space of their own vis-à-vis anonymous markets, global actors, and local and national elites. Within this self-governed space, it is suggested, a path can be laid for the necessary transition towards local, social, and ecological sustainability. The Social Economy Basel (SEB, founded 1996) will serve as an example to suggest how SSE principles could be operationalized into organizational practice.