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The 20 th Century: War, Totalitarianism, Genocide & Consumerism. Total war. Totalitarianism. Genocide. Genocide. International Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (1948) killing members of the group
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The 20thCentury:War, Totalitarianism, Genocide & Consumerism
Genocide International Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide(1948) • killing members of the group • causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group • deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to kill • imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group • forcibly transferring children out of a group
Consumerism Thorstein Veblen, The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899) "conspicuous consumption"