Emil Kirkegaard

Emil Kirkegaard is a quantitative sociologist of Danish origin.

Quotes

  • Given all of the above, I find it difficult to say which modern ideology is the worst. A good case for communism (left-wing extremism) can be made in that it is an ideology that always results in at best poverty and political suppression (East Germany) and at worst catastrophe (Pol Pot and Mao’s mass killings, famine). Unfortunately, humans seem to be particularly prone to liking this ideology. No matter how many times communism fails, it remains popular with intellectuals. The Soviet Union and its east Europe puppets, Maoist China, Pol Pot’s Cambodia, Venezuela, Cuba, Vietnam, Yugoslavia, Somalia, the list goes on. But most communist states do not result in extreme death counts, and when they do, it is mostly from stupidity, not outright cruelty.
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