The Blue Book of Freedom

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.