[acw011]

It really should read "The hundreds of million people killed" "and counting"

It'd also be nice if it did not distinguish between Socialism & Communism, as I believe they are one and the same just at different spots on a time line.

[dfwgator]

Exactly. Socialism/Communism both involve using force to transfer wealth from the rich to the poor.

The Communists correctly evaluated that simply transferring wealth from rich to poor would only result in the rich getting the money back over time. And thus, the only way to avoid that was to simply kill off the rich. Socialism/Communism would never work without the use of terror to achieve it's means, no matter how idealistic they may have been in the beginning.