[Tolik]

RUDOLPH J. RUMMEL, Professor Emeritus of Political Science, University of Hawaii.

Wrote about two-dozen books and over 100 professional articles. Most recent books: Death By Government (Transaction Publications, 1994), The Miracle That Is Freedom (Martin Institute for Peace Studies and Conflict Resolution, University of Idaho, 1996), Power Kills (Transaction Publications, 1997), and Statistics of Democide (Center for National Security Law, 1997).

His about page; his blog: Democratic Peace blog

Commentary Archive:

5/1/05 "The American Vs. French Revolutions-A Freedomist Interpretation

3/19/05 "Democracy? Prosperous and Never a Famine"

2/23/05 "The Incredible Utopia That is the Free Market"

1/25/05 "Sharansky and the Democratic Peace"

1/1/05 Why Do Governments Kill?

12/14/04 Bush Knows-Do You?

11/14/04 "Exporting Democracy" Is Really About Unchaining Human Rights

11/1/04 The Impact of Democracy--Peace Breaks Out

9/8/04 Democide In Sudan: Dither, Delay, and Doublespeak While People are Murdered Wholesale

7/30/04 Obsolete Concepts: Stability

6/7/04 Misperception Of The Abu Gharib Prison Abuses

5/9/04 Israel's Just Assassination

4/18/04 The Intellectual Trap of Understanding

4/3/04 Introductory comments on Krauthammer's 'Democratic Realism: An American Foreign Policy for a Unipolar World'"

2/23/04 What is to be Done about the Democidal Famine in North Korea?

1/27/04 Mental Blockers--On the Use of "International Community," "United Nations," and "Leader"

12/20.03 World War IV--The Islamicist War

12/1/03 A Forward Strategy of Freedom

10/18/03 The United Nations-United Thugs

10/18/03 Explaining Genocide

10/5/03 Was World War II American Urban Bombing Democide?

9.22.03 Louis Rene Beres, "Genocide" [Palestinian Calls For The Annihilation Of Israelis Is A Serious Crime Under International Law]

9/11/03 Genocide Bombing of the Jews

8/28/03 Government Murder by Quota

7/15/03 DEMOCRACY NEWS: Electronic Newsletter of the World Movement for Democracy

7/8/03 Alan J. Kuperman, "How the Media Missed Rwandan Genocide"

7/1/03 "Exemplifying the Horror of European Colonization: Leopold's Congo"

6/24/03 Gregory Stanton, "How We Can Prevent Genocide"

6/17/03 Commentary on "Anglosphere: The Democracy Club"

6/9/03. Commentary on "Conflict in Democratic Republic of Congo Deadliest Since World War II, Says The IRC"

5/31/03. Death By Marxism

Gregory H. Stanton, 5/24/03. Perfection Is The Enemy of Justice: A Response to Amnesty International's Critique of the Draft Agreement Between the U.N. and Cambodia.

5/19/03. Just the Facts: United States, Democide, and Democracy.

5/10/03. Three Cheers for the United States.

5/4/03. What? Violence is Everywhere?

4/24/03. A Dysfunctional State Department?

[Tolik]

Nailed It!
Moral Clarity BUMP !

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[Tijeras_Slim]

R.J. Rummel writes good stuff.

[bassmaner]

Absolutely nails it. Great post.

[Restorer]

Obviously, the population that is available to kill will make a big difference in the total democide, and thus the annual percentage rate of democide is revealing.

If so, this also applies to the Black Death, which affected a Europe with a total population of 75 to 100 million, making it quite a bit more dramatic than he implies, even when compared to the ravages of Communism.

It is also estimated that the Mongols killed somewhere around 100 million people out of a world population at the time of less than 1B, with no real ideology other than "me want," and with their highest technology the recurved bow.

My point is that modern events are not always as unprecedented as they appear to us due to historical foreshortening.

[swilhelm73]

bttt

[Tolik]

Another R.J. Rummel ping.

[Graymatter]

Communists, liberals---they should be darted, carted and released in the wild.

[popdonnelly]

These murders should be brought up repeatedly, until they become a part of popular consciousness. Without an awareness of the costs of these Communist experiments, the World's people will be living in a dream world.

[BobL]

If you want to know why the Rosenbergs were hanged, look up the number for USSR.

No person who supports regimes like the ones above deserve to an extra day.