ABSTRACT
This chapter examines racism in terms of its relationship with allenation and false consciousness. Max Weber distinguished between two kinds of rationality: a goal-determined rationality and a value-determined rationality. The assessment of racism as an eminently antidialectical and antihistoricist mental attitude, seems to hold true for the concept of allenation. The concept of racism has itself become an ideological concept. The term “ideological concept” refers to forms produced by the crystallization of egocentric “false identifications.” From the perspective of its own war goals, Nazism exhibited a highly maladjusted type of behavior guided by a delusional rationality. The link between racism and the Marxist concepts of allenation and false consciousness, can help illuminate a number of parasitic phenomena regarding pseudoracism. The racist policies of Nazi Germany targeted a fully assimilated and patriotically minded minority, and, by expelling renowned German scientists of Jewish origin, Nazi Germany certainly contributed to its own defeat.
