The 20th Century - The Economist

[Wojtek Sokolowski]

At 08:21 AM 9/14/99 -0400, you wrote:
>On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, Alexandre Fenelon wrote:
>
>>Well, the black book of Communism gives us the following estimates
>>1-China: 55 millions
>>2-USSR: 15 millions
>>3-North Korea: 1 million
>>4-Vietnam: 1 million
>
>>I would like to know where The Economist discovered those remaining 47
>>million deaths.
>
>I seem to remember that Solzhenitsyn came up with a number like 60
>million.  The page attributes the stats to something called "Statistics of
>Democide" by Rudy J. Rummel.  

Did they also calculate victims of christendom and capitalism?  Or are such
facts irrelevant in the special case of anglo-saxon ruling ideologies?  

Perhaps DeLong has something to say on this subject.

wojtek