Re: And how did you celebrate 1 May?

In article <ddfr-81C50A.18565404052008@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
David Friedman <ddfr@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> said:

> So on the whole, I think the evidence that murdering very large
> numbers of people is closely connected to communism is better than
> the evidence that it is closely connected to Nazism.

Accepting that, arguendo, to what extent is it connected to
communism per se, versus being connected to trying to use absolute
force, on a very large scale, to make something that doesn't work --
communism -- work?  (And, relatedly, to cover up all traces of the
fact that it doesn't work.)

Also, as a second-order effect, all that's got to be pretty
stressful for the guy who's doing it, which can't be good for his
state or stability of mind.  All J. Random Tinpot Dictator has to
worry about is a military coup; he _has_ no broken ideology to try
to keep propping up.

-- wds