Re: And how did you celebrate 1 May?

In article <fvovnn$mnv$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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 wdstarr@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (William December Starr) wrote:

> In article <ddfr-81C50A.18565404052008@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> 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.)

Interesting question. Do we have other examples of that pattern?

Chinese history  might be a good place to look, but I don't know it well 
enough.

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