Rudolph Rummel vs. Kirby Page
Side-by-side comparison of two thinkers
Rudolph Rummel
1932 – 2014
Rudolph Joseph Rummel was an American political scientist, a statistician and professor at Indiana University, Yale University, and University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. He spent his career studying data on collective violence and war with a view toward helping their resolution or elimination. Contrasting genocide, Rummel coined the term democide for murder by government, such as the genocide of indigenous peoples and colonialism, Nazi Germany, the Stalinist purges, Mao Zedong's Cultural Revolution, and other authoritarian, totalitarian, or undemocratic regimes, coming to the conclusion that democratic regimes result in the least democides.
"The Polarity Principle:" The more government, the more violence. By ‘more government’ is meant more centralization of government power, more intervention in per…"
Kirby Page
1890 – 1957
Kirby Page (1890–1957) was an American Disciples of Christ minister, an author, and a peace activist.
"Repudiation of the principle of defensive killing and the reliance upon ethical means of resistance are imperative if the vicious circle of taking life in order…"
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