Re: And how did you celebrate 1 May?

On Mon, 05 May 2008 15:11:25 -0700, David Friedman
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> wrote:

>In article <o7vu14hootlekksecsreh6g831mthq23j5@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
> mike weber <fairportfan@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>> What i meant was that here are people who came to power in the
>> time-hnoured tradition of revolution, who killed many of their own
>> people, and had no intention of yielding up power except by the "cold
>> dead fingers" route ... it's not just Comunists who do that sort of
>> thing.
>
>On the other hand, I think most people who come to power by revolution 
>don't kill very many of their own people, if "very many" means "on the 
>scale of a Hitler or Stalin." Some do.

Well, Stalin himself didn't come to power by revolution, but the
regime he siezed control of did.

Then there's Mao.

One wonders about the Sandinistas.

And didn't Pol Pot come to power by revolution?