The Blue Book of Freedom: Ending Famine, Poverty, Democide, and War
- Freedom is the way to economic and human security.
- Free people never have famine.
- Where people are free, political violence is minimal.
- The more freedom a people enjoy, the less likely their government will murder them.
- The less free the people in any two nations are, the bloodier and more destructive any war between them will be.
- To do away with famine, mass impoverishment, democide (the murder by a government of its own people), and war, promote freedom.
- Democratic freedom is a method of nonviolence and an antidote to war.
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Book details
- Author
- R.J. Rummel
- Imprint
- Cumberland House Publishing, an imprint of Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Pages
- 155
- Formats
- Paperback, Hardcover
- Subjects
- Political Science › Political Freedom
Political Science › Political Ideologies › Democracy - Topics
- democracy · political freedom · war and peace · human security · political violence
- ISBN-13
- 9781581826203 (Paperback)9781684422951 (Hardcover)
About the author
RUDOLPH JOSEPH RUMMEL was an American political scientist and professor who taught at Indiana University, Yale University, and the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, and the author of more than twenty-four scholarly books. His books include The Miracle That Is Freedom, Power Kills and Understanding Conflict and War.
Rummel received the Susan Strange Award of the International Studies Association and the Lifetime Achievement Award in 2003 from the Conflict Processes Section of the American Political Science Association. He was also frequently nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.
Rummel spent his career studying data on collective violence and war with a view toward helping their resolution or elimination, coining the term "democide" for murder by government. Much of his work grew directly from that research.