Let's have a 'sensitive'war

[Damien Morton]

Lets also catalog the people erased by capitalist and imperialist powers
of the west in the years before they achieved global dominace. Lets
catalog the genocides commited on the north and south american
continents, the genocide in australia and the racist regime in south
africa, not to mention the countless smaller attrocities such as the
congo and so forth.

What a peacefull little culture we are.

-----Original Message-----
From: Lisa Dusseault [mailto:lisa@xythos.com]
Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2001 7:39 PM
To: Owen Byrne; fork@xent.com
Subject: RE: Let's have a 'sensitive'war


> Where do I find this "Black Book of Communism?" Never heard of it
> before today.

A friend recommends it:
The Black Book of Communism : Crimes, Terror, Repression
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0674076087/qid=3D1005784513/sr=3D1=
-1/
ref=3D
sr_1_26_1/103-0491484-2868610

Basically, it catalogues deaths from communism.  Courtois (editor)
believes
that a state with the goal of erasing class distinctions always led to
erasing classes -- by erasing people.

"Even some of his contributors shied away from chief editor Stephane
Courtois's conclusion that Communism, in all its many forms, was morally
no
better than Nazism; the two totalitarian systems, Courtois argued, were
far
better at killing than at governing, as the world learned to its
sorrow."

Even the reviews on Amazon are interesting.

lisa



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