Re: And how did you celebrate 1 May?

David Friedman <ddfr@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> We have a sample of one independent Nazi government. We have a larger 
> sample of communist governments. Not all of them were murderous on 
> something like the the Nazi scale--I think Cuba is pretty clearly an 
> exception, although that may be partly because it was easier for people 
> to leave--but at least four that I can think of were, and one of those 
> killed a considerably larger fraction of the people it controlled than 
> the Nazis did. 
>
> 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.

In at least three of the cases, were the underlying ideologies really all
that much more relevant than "dictatorship by an insane person" (as was
clearly the case with Hitler, Mao and Stalin, and probably Pol Pot.) 

Also, which one is the fourth murderous Communist regime - Vietnam?

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