(SFR ARCHIVE) Death By Government - Democide, Liberty, & The State

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“If one man dies of hunger, that is a grave tragedy. If millions die, that’s just a statistic.”

We are used to hearing about homicide, infanticide, ethnocide, possibly politicide, and genocide.

As grotesque and vile as all these various “cides” are, they can all essentially be umbrella’d under a bigger, and to me, more descriptive term. One that accurately accounts for all the aforementioned examples of atrocities and wanton acts of violence, and was coined by groundbreaking political scientist Rudolph J. Rummel in the mid-1980s

The topic of this podcast is DEMOCIDE and all the associated horrors of State instigated killings.

We look into all the facets of this suspiciously overlooked conceptual term because of its applicability, superior social science lens, and unique contextualization of past (and almost certainly future) political crimes.

Which, as we will learn, in the 20th century alone has accounted for 174 million deaths by government…

Enough bodies, if lined up head to toe, to circle our planet about four times (as sadly demonstrated by the RING OF TEARS)

A huge thank you to the folks at the University of Hawaii because without their publishing of Prof. Rummel's work, we would be an intellectually poorer society.

Oh and here's my ideal, and oft mentioned, form of government: The Night-watchman State

All music generously provided by Fesliyan Studios

Cheers and thanks for listening

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