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In reply to the discussion: If you could eliminate one person from history...who would it be? [View all]
wickerwoman
(5,662 posts)394. Friedrich Hayek
without whom we would probably have been spared the Chicago School of Economics.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Road_to_Serfdom
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If you could eliminate one person from history...who would it be? [View all]
Grave Grumbler
Aug 2012
OP
Before he was president, he was gov of Calif and he wrecked my home state.
SammyWinstonJack
Aug 2012
#159
I chose Ronald Reagan; the beginning of the end of the United States of America.
northoftheborder
Aug 2012
#217
For Reagan, I'd work on getting the Communist Party to not reject his attempt to join
JHB
Aug 2012
#324
So you've never read a book by any historian who holds the people of that era in Germany
treestar
Aug 2012
#357
It was Hitler. He was quite an orator and all he needed was a scapegoat and he had one.
demosincebirth
Aug 2012
#110
I'd go with Stalin, I don't think anyone ever lived who was responsible for more death
1-Old-Man
Aug 2012
#68
Why would you obviate the Bolshevik Revolution, and if so, what are you doing here?
leveymg
Aug 2012
#111
The OP is about *one* figure, I did *not* say get rid of Trotsky or even *Stalin*!
joshcryer
Aug 2012
#125
What in the world makes you think any of the other movements would have survived the White counter-
leveymg
Aug 2012
#130
That's what Sidney Riley, Boris Brasol, and Major Van Dieman all thought about Lenin
leveymg
Aug 2012
#208
Four strokes after he was shot by a pistol allegedly provided by Reilly and Lockhardt.
leveymg
Aug 2012
#250
Like the rest of the western role in the Civil War, it virtually assured that a Thermidor and
leveymg
Aug 2012
#259
What is the basis for your assertion that Lenin would've instituted authoritarianism without ...
LooseWilly
Aug 2012
#272
There's a difference between "getting rid of" and "eliminating from history."
joshcryer
Aug 2012
#238
You don't think "outside meddling changed the overall sinister nature of Marxist-Leninism{sic}"?...
LooseWilly
Aug 2012
#270
Are you arguing that the White Army "civil war", funded and supported by external powers...
LooseWilly
Aug 2012
#391
Elsewhere you already established you believe totalitarianism was the only way.
joshcryer
Aug 2012
#393
what does the Bolshevik Revolution have to do with being here, or not?? eom
yawnmaster
Aug 2012
#233
it has everything to do w/ being here to a State Department radical like joshcryer
BOG PERSON
Aug 2012
#343
Why are Germans "out of the picture" after 1918?... When Germany launched a new invasion in 1918?
LooseWilly
Aug 2012
#276
Considering the neo-militancy imbued into Jesus-ism in so many Evangelical circles...
LooseWilly
Aug 2012
#279
Fall of the Roman Empire 476 AD. Mohammad visited by the angel Gabriel 612 AD
demosincebirth
Aug 2012
#231
Modern version: high-altitude nuclear bursts would wipeout most electronics & data in the world
leveymg
Aug 2012
#329
I don't recall saying anything about neo-pagans or anything that would imply I was thinking about..
Kalidurga
Aug 2012
#356
Well my theory is that if we lost the revolution eventually we'd have become our own country anyway.
craigmatic
Aug 2012
#38
the British wanted to restrict westward expansion and honoring native American territorial rights
Douglas Carpenter
Aug 2012
#65
We're liberals we're not supposed to just accept myths at face value. We're supposed to question and
craigmatic
Aug 2012
#366
I don't think he's that great. He owned slaves and fought a guerilla war over taxes which should
craigmatic
Aug 2012
#365
I'm okay with your overall point (that we would have ended up a better place to live). However...
ieoeja
Aug 2012
#409
All the different acts were mercantilism it was the accepted economic theory of the day.
craigmatic
Aug 2012
#410
Just one of many myths about the creation of the world and its inhabitants
LiberalEsto
Aug 2012
#317
Arguably the most important person in 20th century history. The world would be a different place.
Xithras
Aug 2012
#67
If you know about Princip, you should know the Russian Okhrana agent who ran Apis, head of
leveymg
Aug 2012
#244
Or maybe they thought it too far away (and therefore not defensible and not easy to supply)...
MattSh
Aug 2012
#268
It would seem that my dislike of him pisses you off. So are you calling me a Douchebag?
L0oniX
Aug 2012
#190
This post was alerted on. The jury is still out! Update! Let it stand by a vote of 5/1.
ohiosmith
Aug 2012
#225
Bingo! And, yes, the religious nuts would have just substituted Brian for Jesus.
stopbush
Aug 2012
#267
I'd take out Gavrilo Princip and give the 20th/21st centuries a do-over. (nt)
Posteritatis
Aug 2012
#33
I think that you should eliminate mass criminals like Hitler to make it more interesting
grantcart
Aug 2012
#37
I love Tesla too. Free electricity man. Got to love a man for the people. n/t
vaberella
Aug 2012
#133
Well Reagan is an excellent pick. But my pick would be Sarah Quitter Palin.
southernyankeebelle
Aug 2012
#48
Sometimes I think if Stalin had never been, Hitler wouldn't have attained absolute power
Bombtrack
Aug 2012
#59
that and he had so many more starlets and hat check girls he wanted to score with.
WI_DEM
Aug 2012
#97
Now, now. (But if we could just *somehow* kept him home that night... )
Gidney N Cloyd
Aug 2012
#124
The problem with that is that somebody else would have ended up doing the same thing
RZM
Aug 2012
#155
Do you know I'd have to have the US lose the Revolution? To stop slavery in the US.
vaberella
Aug 2012
#132
Now, using words rather than a visual, why this question is all wrong for DU.
McCamy Taylor
Aug 2012
#164
As much damage Reagan policies have done, I agree Hitler would me choice for elimination.
liberal N proud
Aug 2012
#169
Why are you exempting religious figures?? Taking out Muhammed for example
riderinthestorm
Aug 2012
#203
I prefer to call them "what-ifs". What if Lincoln had not been fatally shot...
madinmaryland
Aug 2012
#207
Harry Turtledove has written quite a few "what-if" novels. Pretty interesting.
madinmaryland
Aug 2012
#232
I wouldn't change anything major about the past pre-birth of myself...
Comrade_McKenzie
Aug 2012
#223
I'd like to go out on a limb and say the Austro Hungarian Archduke Ferdinand. Without his
coalition_unwilling
Aug 2012
#257
I don't mean to throw a monkey wrench in the works. Cool topic, but, going on the idea
Justice wanted
Aug 2012
#263
not at all. that woman has caused incredible harm with her anti-equality, pro-war rhetoric. she
niyad
Aug 2012
#297
exactly. why choose her, when there are those who have caused tens of millions of deaths and massive
cali
Aug 2012
#304
there is so much that woman has said that is beyond disgusting, including a comment that anyone
niyad
Aug 2012
#363
If Sen. Thomas Walsh had lived, J. Edgar would've been out of a job in 1933
RufusTFirefly
Aug 2012
#328
I'm sure Trotskyists would want rid of Stalin, as would anarchists and Left Communists.
white_wolf
Aug 2012
#367