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Rudolph Rummel

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Also known as Rudolph Joseph Rummel, R. J. Rummel, Rummel's law

American academic (1932–2014)

Person · Open Library

Works
3

Top works

  • Death by Government
  • The dimensions of nations series
  • Understanding conflict and war

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Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
United States

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Quotes

  • It is sad that hundreds of thousands of people can be killed by governments with hardly an international murmur, while a war killing several thousand people can cause an immediate world outcry and global reaction.
  • In practice, Marxism has meant bloody terrorism, deadly purges, lethal prison camps and murderous forced labor, fatal deportations, man-made famines, extrajudicial executions and fraudulent show trials, outright mass murder and genocide.
  • "The Polarity Principle:" The more government, the more violence. By ‘more government’ is meant more centralization of government power, more intervention in personal, social, and economic affairs and activities, more limits on political criticism and competition, and more narrowing of electoral choices. In other words, by ‘more government’ is meant less freedom, less civil liberties, political rights, and economic freedom.
  • The more libertarian a state, the significantly less internal violence it has, and the significantly and predictably (in variance terms) lower its possible peak violence.
  • Libertarian states have no violence between themselves. The more libertarian two states, the less their mutual violence. The more libertarian a state, the less its foreign violence.
  • Quite simply, a free press promotes peace; creating a universally free press would promote universal peace. The bridge between the two is democracy.

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