103 million Deaths from Communism - and counting

Victor Hugo once wrote that [N]othing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come. Regrettably, nothing is more destructive than an idea that won’t die. And unfortunately for humanity, that idea is communism.

In the 1997 book the Black Book of Communism by Stéphane Courtois et al, it was estimated that communism had lead to the deaths of of some …