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Say, rather, that the Bolshevik system of rule seems to generate an absurdly high probability that a murderous paranoid psychopath will gain absolute power and wreak fearful slaughter Pol Pot... Kim Il Sung... Mao... Stalin... Ceausescu.
I can't think of a system of rule that on average gave more power to worse people. There's something structural going on here. But I've never been able to satisfactorily explain what.
Brad DeLong
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