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"Little Eichmanns" is a term used to describe people whose actions, while on an individual scale may seem relatively harmless even to themselves, taken collectively create destructive and immoral systems in which they are actually complicit. The name comes from Adolf Eichmann, a Nazi bureaucrat who helped to orchestrate the Holocaust, but claimed that he did so without feeling anything about his actions, merely following the orders given to him.

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  • "Ajĥmanetoj" (angle: "Little Eichmanns") estas partoprenantoj en la socio kies agoj, kvankam individue ŝajne sendanĝeraj eĉ al ili mem, kolektive kreas detruajn kaj malmoralajn sistemojn, pri kiuj ili estas efektive kunkulpaj. La nomo venas de Adolf Eichmann, nazia burokrato, kiu senemocie helpis direkti la Holokaŭston. La uzo de "Ajĥmano" kiel pratipo radikas en la ideo de Hannah Arendt pri la "banaleco de la malbono". Laŭ Arendt en ŝia 1963-a libro Eichmann en Jerusalemo, Eichmann dependis de propagando prefere ol pensi por si kaj efektivigis naziajn celojn plejparte por antaŭenigi sian karieron. Ĉe sia proceso li ŝajnis havi ordinaran kaj banalan personecon, kvankam li montris nek kulposenton nek malamon. Ŝi sugestis ke tio plej okulfrape senkreditigas la ideon, ke la naziaj krimuloj estas psikopataj kaj fundamente malsamaj ol ordinaraj homoj. La ideo, ke la koncepto ĝuste priskribas Adolf Eichmann, la plejparton de nazioj, aŭ la plejparton de tiuj, kiuj laboras sub tiaj reĝimoj, estas kritikata de tiuj, kiuj argumentas, ke Eichmann kaj la plejparto de nazioj fakte estis profunde ideologaj kaj ekstreme antisemitaj, kun Eichmann aparte obsedata pri la judoj ekde juna aĝo. La germana politika sciencisto Clemens Heni eĉ diras, ke la esprimo "bagateligas la Holokaŭston". La esprimo estis atribuita al la anarcho-primitivist verkisto John Zerzan el ties eseo "Whose Unabomber?" verkita en 1995. Tamen ĝi "certe estis ofte uzata jam en la 1960-aj jaroj", ĉar oni konas diversajn antaŭajn ekzemplojn. Ĝi eminentiĝis en la usona politika kulturo plurajn jarojn post la atakoj de la 11-a de septembro 2001, kiam polemiko rezultis pro la 2003-a libro On the Justice of Roosting Chickens, kiu reeldonis simile titolita eseo, kiun Ward Churchill verkis tuj post la atakoj. En la eseo, Churchill uzis la esprimon por priskribi teknokratojn laborantajn en la World Trade Center. (eo)
  • "Little Eichmanns" is a term used to describe people whose actions, while on an individual scale may seem relatively harmless even to themselves, taken collectively create destructive and immoral systems in which they are actually complicit. The name comes from Adolf Eichmann, a Nazi bureaucrat who helped to orchestrate the Holocaust, but claimed that he did so without feeling anything about his actions, merely following the orders given to him. The use of "Eichmann" as an archetype stems from Hannah Arendt's notion of the "banality of evil". According to Arendt in her 1963 book Eichmann in Jerusalem, Eichmann relied on propaganda rather than thinking for himself, and carried out Nazi goals mostly to advance his career, appearing at his trial to have an ordinary and common personality while displaying neither guilt nor hatred. She suggested that this most strikingly discredits the idea that the Nazi war criminals were manifestly psychopathic and fundamentally different from ordinary people. The idea that Eichmann — or, indeed, the majority of Nazis or of those working in such regimes — actually fit this concept has been criticized by those who contend that Eichmann and the majority of Nazis were in fact deeply ideological and extremely anti-Semitic, with Eichmann in particular having been fixated on and obsessed with the Jews from a young age. German political scientist goes so far as to say the phrase "belittles the Holocaust". Barbara Mann wrote that the term was perhaps best known for its use by anarcho-primitivist writer John Zerzan in his essay Whose Unabomber? written in 1995, although it was already common in the 1960s, as various prior examples are known. It gained prominence in American political culture several years after the September 11, 2001 attacks, when a controversy ensued over the 2003 book On the Justice of Roosting Chickens, republishing a similarly titled essay Ward Churchill wrote shortly after the attacks. In the essay, Churchill used the phrase to describe technocrats working at the World Trade Center: If there was a better, more effective, or in fact any other way of visiting some penalty befitting their participation upon the little Eichmanns inhabiting the sterile sanctuary of the twin towers, I'd really be interested in hearing about it. (en)
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  • "Ajĥmanetoj" (angle: "Little Eichmanns") estas partoprenantoj en la socio kies agoj, kvankam individue ŝajne sendanĝeraj eĉ al ili mem, kolektive kreas detruajn kaj malmoralajn sistemojn, pri kiuj ili estas efektive kunkulpaj. La nomo venas de Adolf Eichmann, nazia burokrato, kiu senemocie helpis direkti la Holokaŭston. (eo)
  • "Little Eichmanns" is a term used to describe people whose actions, while on an individual scale may seem relatively harmless even to themselves, taken collectively create destructive and immoral systems in which they are actually complicit. The name comes from Adolf Eichmann, a Nazi bureaucrat who helped to orchestrate the Holocaust, but claimed that he did so without feeling anything about his actions, merely following the orders given to him. (en)
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