Hobsbawn: if it works, seven-figure mass murder justified

Also via the Instaman: excerpts from an interview with Marxist historian Eric Hobsbawm. The following incredible statements on Stalin's collectivization and Great Purges speak for themselves:

HOBSBAWM: Because in a period in which, as you might imagine, mass murder and mass suffering are absolutely universal, the chance of a new world being born in great suffering would still have been worth backing. Now the point is, looking back as an historian, I would say that the sacrifices made by the Russian people were probably only marginally worthwhile. [...]
[Interviewer Michael] IGNATIEFF: What that comes down to is saying that had the radiant tomorrow actually been created, the loss of fifteen, twenty million people might have been justified?

HOBSBAWM: Yes.

Imagine the (more than justified) outcry if some "respected intellectual" claimed that the Nazi death camps would have been worth it if the Nazi racial utopia had actually been created. But the logical equivalent of same is fair game on the far "left". And believe this former leftist --- the argument is much more commonly made (in Europe) than you would think.

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[Harry]

I hate to point it out, because the whole thing is sickening, but it's actually an EIGHT-figure mass murder this sick bastard would have been satisfied with.