The Blue Book of Freedom: Ending Famine, Poverty, Democide, and War

In The Blue Book of Freedom, R. J. Rummel asserts that democracy is the solution to the scourges that face the world. A student of war and peace for more than forty years, he has learned that democratic freedom provides a solution to the evils that have plagued mankind. The Blue Book of Freedom presents the results of his work in everyday language. The main points are:

• 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.