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Comment author: NancyLebovitz 17 December 2014 05:31:47PM 2 points [-]

That may be enough to explain it, but I do think groups that compete in committing the worst public atrocities are somewhat unusual-- Hitler and Stalin made some effort to conceal the worst of what they were doing.

Thanks for the Hayek link. Do you recommend the savageleft site?

Comment author: alienist 19 December 2014 03:31:34AM *  6 points [-]

That may be enough to explain it, but I do think groups that compete in committing the worst public atrocities are somewhat unusual-- Hitler and Stalin made some effort to conceal the worst of what they were doing.

If you look at pre-20th century (and especially pre-Enlightenment) history, you see that it is Hitler and Stalin that are unusual.

Comment author: Salemicus 17 December 2014 08:45:16PM 1 point [-]

I don't know anything about that site. They just happened to have a freely available copy of that chapter.

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