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Miller ‘22 – Patrick Miller, Patrick Miller specializes in 20th century philosophy and social-political thought, with a focus on Georges Bataille, Emmanuel Levinas, Martin Heidegger, and issues related to the self, community and the ethical limits of politics. “What is Fascism Without a State?:Countering Claims of Batille’s Left Fascism”. Routledge Taylor and Francis Group. 2022. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.1080/14409917.2022.2104082?needAccess=true&role=button. Accessed 7/14/23 //EKW
Moreover, Wolin’s claim hinges on a conception of community in which war acts as acatalyst that takes disparate, atomised individuals and puts them into an ecstatic collec-tive. The crux of Wolin’s interpretation is a misinterpretation of the Bataillean con-ception of community. Bataille calls for a community that destroys the traditionalsense of community. As the“Programme (Relative toAcéphale)”states,“1 Form a com-munity creative of values, values creative of cohesion".16This call to form a communitybased on the creation of values implies the destruction of existing communities.However, proposition 7 suggests that proposition 1 refers to a universal community:“Fight for the decomposition and exclusion of all communities national, socialist, com-munist or churchly–other than universal community".17Thus, this concept of commu-nity is a rejection of nationalist, socialist, or typical religious communities. In Bataille,one is confronted with a universal community that breaks with existent communitiesfounded on old ideals or values.