"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." ~ H.L. Mencken
There is a Great Deal that Anarchists Did not Do, But Statists DID Do
"Note that Chinese democide has been even more calamitous than famine, and over four times more deadly than the human cost of war and rebellions, including the Boxer, Sino-Japanese, Korean, and Civil Wars. There is a general point to be made here. More helpless Chinese died at the hands of their several governments than died in open warfare. Similarly for the Soviets; similarly for the people under Nazi control; and similarly for those under Turkish control during World War I (the Turks slaughtered at least 1,000,000 Armenians while losing 325,000 war dead) That is, democide kills more people than war; it also kills more people than such natural calamities like famine, flood, earthquakes, and contemporary plagues. Democide is the greatest mass killer of all. Why therefore it is so little appreciated, plays so little a role in history books and social science studies, is a big question."
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