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nct, become at once a tool of prosperity and survival. If you walk for a few minutes to the south of Tinanmen Square in Beijing, leaving the tomb of Mao Zedong behind you, there’s a small lane that runs back into a warren of anonymous, white-walled buildings. The streets are unusually clean; the surveillance

n. Huang was, in a sense, heir to the Warring States diplomat Su Qin, whom Master Nan had encouraged me to study. Huang had penetrated the madness of Mao’s revolutionary era to see the possibility of a different order, one he’d brought to vivid life after Deng Xiaoping ascended to the Chinese leadershi

227 “Give up your chemistry”: John Ellis, A Social History of the Machine Gun (New York: Pantheon, 1975) p.33 154 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_018386 against Sparta. The Melians - like poor Lin Zexu or Lobengula of the Matabele - yearned only to be left alone. “You would not agree to our being neutral, friends in

sevic, Pol Pot, Josef Stalin, Charles Taylor, and Mao Zedong. These men were responsible for the brutal

over 50 million people — a death toll that is at least four times higher than what Hitler caused during his reign, and comparable to that achieved by Mao Ze-Dong during his. As noted in chapter 1, chimpanzees kill at a rate that approximates many hunter-gatherer groups. When they kill, the frenzied attacks are

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relatively minor harms such as Reverend Lawrence Murphy and Charles Manson, as well as those who committed much more major harms such as Idi Amin and Mao Zedong. Whether we consider these individuals and their acts as evil is orthogonal to the fact that each one posed a great risk to society. Each of these in

mitted much more major harms such as Idi Amin and Mao Zedong. Whether we consider these individuals and

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