NancyLebovitz comments on Open Thread, March 1-15, 2012 - Less Wrong
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See also Tthe Great Leap Forward.
I'd say they count-- if a system doesn't allow for quickly changing (or better, preventing) policies which cause death on a grand scale, there's something wrong with the system.
Something very wrong - yes.
Mass murder - ??
Edit to add: On reflection, the Great Leap Forward is a lot more like Stalin and the Kulaks than the unedited version of this comment might suggest.