[lbo-talk] Reevaluated Democide Totals for 20th C. and China

[geert lovink]

> Asia Pacific Research Online, Canberra, Australia.
>
> Rummel, Rudy J. 2005. Reevaluated democide totals for 20th C. and 
> China (a note sent to
> 21,000 email addresses on Tue, 29 Nov 2005). Department of Political 
> Science, University
> of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI, US.
>
> Extract: "Many scholars and commentators have referenced my total of 
> 174,000,000 for
> the democide (genocide and mass murder) of the last century [Rummel, 
> Rudy J. 1991. China's
> Bloody Century: Genocide and Mass Murder Since 1900. Transaction 
> Publishers.
> ISBN: 088738417X - ed.].
>
> I'm now trying to get word out that I've had to make a major revision 
> in my total due to two books.
> One is Wild Swans: Two Daughters of China by Jung Chang, and the other 
> is Mao: the Unknown Story
> that she wrote with her husband, Jon Halliday. I'm now convinced that 
> that Stalin exceeded Hitler
> in monstrous evil, and Mao beat out Stalin. [...]
>
> Now, I have to change all the world democide totals that populate my 
> websites, blogs, and publications.
>
> The total for the communist democide before and after Mao took over 
> the mainland is thus
> 3,446,000 + 35,226,000 + 38,000,000 = 76,692,000, or to round off, 
> 77,000,000 murdered.
> [...] This exceeds the 61,911,000 murdered by the Soviet Union 
> 1917-1987, with Hitler far
> behind at 20,946,000 wiped out 1933-1945.
>
> For perspective on Mao's most bloody rule, all wars 1900-1987 cost in 
> combat dead 34,021,000
> -- including WWI and II, Vietnam, Korea, and the Mexican and Russian 
> Revolutions. Mao alone
> murdered over twice as many as were killed in combat in all these wars.
>
> Now, my overall totals for world democide 1900-1999 must also be 
> changed. I have estimated
> it to be 174,000,000 murdered, of which communist regimes murdered 
> about 148,000,000.
>  Also, compare this to combat dead. Communists overall have murdered 
> four times those killed
> in combat, while globally the democide toll was over six times that 
> number. - r.j.rummel."
>
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