populism vs. Marxism (was RE: Frank Sinatra)

[Brad De Long]

Re:
>
>criterion that matters in evaluating them is the 'whose thug?'  -- for
>every national leader's closet hides plenty of skeletons.  I do not think
>these figures are any more or less reprehensible than Rosevelets, Trumans,
>Nixons, or Reagans.

Surely the magnitude of the body count matters?

Brad DeLong