populism vs. Marxism (was RE: Frank Sinatra)

[Brad De Long]

>Brad-
>
>Pinochet gets maybe a tenth of a Suharto. Ho Chi Minh is maybe a Suharto
>and a half
>Castro I don't know enough about, but I suspect he is in the tenth-Suharto
>range. Kim Il Sung is probably in the three Suharto range. Pol Pot is also
>in the three Suharto range--but he gets extra points for "enthusiasm" given
>Cambodia's small population base.
>
>Lenin and Chiang Kai-Shek are in the roughly ten Suharo range.
>
>The servants of the Showa Emperor make it up to the 10-20 Suharto range.
>
>Mao, Stalin, and Hitler are in the 30-60 Suharto range.
>
>
>Charles - Are you getting some of your figures from William F. Buckley, Jr.
>and the CIA history service ?
>
>Charles Brown

Why do you ask? Do you think that the estimate of the number of unarmed
people living in territories that Chiang Kai-Shek's army and police
controlled killed by his regime is too high?

Brad DeLong