Wretchard, I have witnessed the way leftist ideology has been used to justify calls for murdering “bad guys” who are decent people. That is why I mentioned the “killers” in my post a few days ago. Most people do not realize the way an ideology plus guns can turn male teenagers into organized killer gangs.
When I read that the Serbs and the Croats had armed their teenagers and organized them into militias I said to a friend they are going to start a bloody civil war. The motivation for this was the realization by the Communists bosses of the Yugoslav states that the economic system created by Tito was undercut by the World Bank and the IMF.
I was asked by a policy person in DC to write an academic article about this but my paper was rejected by the Yugolslav “area experts” in the main political science journals.