[lbo-talk] Re: Law Student With a History of Taking Left Turns

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Mon Jul 21 19:16:17 PDT 2003


Doug Henwood wrote:
>
> Brad DeLong wrote:
>
> >This is the first time I've ever seen anybody support Stalin's line:
> >"one death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic".
>
> Hey, it worked for the U.S. in Indochina.
>

I think that's public domain anyhow, not copyrighted by Stalin. I first heard it (not ascribed to Stalin) as One death is a tragedy, 10,000 a problem in public sanitation.

Carrol



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