Institucija grupe i genocidna delovanja

Abstract

This critique is focused on a small theory regarding the constituting of a group through the simultaneous exclusion of some other group. Is it possi­ble, then, to produce social and non­social acts (negative social acts) at the same time? Or is it possible to construct a group which acts ‘genocidally’, meaning that it destroys another group or “the groupness” of a group, and at the same time affirm its own unity and its ontological stability? (I have used the word ‘institution’ in the title, since we are dealing with a group that is lasting, and not temporary.) Finally, does this thematization of the group through inter­group antagonism have anything to do with Lemkin’s word genocide’?