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> That statement is downright silly; on the whole atrocities have been essentially ideal-neutral. Some dictator uses a popular sentiment to seize power and then
by notyourday 9y ago
> That statement is downright silly; on the whole atrocities have been essentially ideal-neutral. Some dictator uses a popular sentiment to seize power and then uses that power in horrible ways. It's as often due to racial animosity or religious fervor as it is the well-being of the poor; it just has to be something that sells well to the population at large.
USSR + communist china + North Korea + Communist countries in Europe + Cuba + communist countries in Africa. They kind of blow that ideal-neutral theory out of the water
- bmer 9y agoThe British Empire + historical monarchies and oligarchiies + capitalist countries in Africa + the Nazis + 20th century Japanese Empire + American expansion westward (and one might argue, modern day American influence) would like to help balance your cherry picked examples.
- notyourday 9y agoThere's a little problem with the scale. All of the ones that you have mentioned in total would be dwarfed by the numbers of USSR + China.