Description
Book SynopsisA highly original theoretical intervention into the causes of genocide, combining Marxism and psychoanalysis.
Trade Review'Disturbing yet enlightening' -- Kevin Kenny, Professor of History, Boston College
'Illuminates that hottest button of topics - modern genocide. No one has made so cogent a case for a Marxist analysis' -- Kurt Jacobsen, University of Chicago, author of Pacification and Its Discontents (2010) and Freud’s Foes (2009)
'A hugely ambitious book which covers immense historical ground and attempts to answer one of the most challenging historical and theoretical questions of our time' -- John Molyneux, Irish Marxist Review
'Sagall reaches farther than many in this field, ambitiously working to uncover the shared psychological states that have resulted in a variety of genocidal events throughout time' -- Guy Lancaster, Marx and Philosophy Review of Books
'Sabby Sagall asks important questions of psychology, fascism and genocidal murder ... there is much to be gained from his book, particularly his synopses of psychoanalytic thinkers and schools of thought' -- Andy Ridley, International Socialism
Table of ContentsIntroduction
1. Why Do People Kill People?
2. Killers On The Couch
3. What Makes Killers Tick?
4. Killing ‘Things’
5. Native American Genocide
6. The Armenian Genocide
7. The Nazi Holocaust
8. The Rwandan Genocide
Summary And Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
