HSRP-674

Rummel concluded from his count that "Power kills; absolute power kills absolutely"

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1. Header

Number
HSRP-674
Category
Civilizational Analysis
Grade
CONTESTED
Status
ACTIVE
Entry form
Full
First entered
2026-10-18
Last revised
Not recorded
Register entry
https://worldfreedomcore.com/hsrp-research-notes#HSRP-674

2. The claim, in full

Rummel concluded from his count that "Power kills; absolute power kills absolutely"

Cited on: /sovereign-citizens. Entered 2026-10-18 by the SOVEREIGN CITIZENS block, tag NEW-SC61 (brief item AH61). THE PAGE'S OWN GRADE LINE READS: "ESTABLISHED as his finding; CONTESTED as to his figures and method". Rummel's total appears as 169,202,000 (book contents) and 169,198,000 (his summary page); he later revised his 1900–1999 total to 262,000,000. Chapter 1 prints the maxim as "Power kills, absolute Power kills absolutely."

3. What it rests on

No confidence intervals are recorded for any figure in this block.

4. Sources

5. Counter-evidence

6. Why this grade

ESTABLISHED as his finding; CONTESTED as to his figures and method

The register defines CONTESTED as: Disputed in the underlying science; the dispute is stated rather than omitted.

7. Correction history

No correction events are recorded. The entry's status is ACTIVE: no later entry amends, supersedes or withdraws it.

8. Related observations

No related observations are linked in the register.

9. Where this appears on the site

Content pages that cite this observation inline:

Pages citing a source this observation rests on: /sovereign-citizens.

10. Open questions

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11. Machine block

The register record this page was generated from, with the derived fields added:

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  "grade": "CONTESTED",
  "status": "ACTIVE",
  "category": "CIV",
  "title": "Rummel concluded from his count that \"Power kills; absolute power kills absolutely\"",
  "entry_form": "full",
  "note": "Cited on: /sovereign-citizens. Entered 2026-10-18 by the SOVEREIGN CITIZENS block, tag NEW-SC61 (brief item AH61). THE PAGE'S OWN GRADE LINE READS: \"ESTABLISHED as his finding; CONTESTED as to his figures and method\". Rummel's total appears as 169,202,000 (book contents) and 169,198,000 (his summary page); he later revised his 1900–1999 total to 262,000,000. Chapter 1 prints the maxim as \"Power kills, absolute Power kills absolutely.\"",
  "n": 674,
  "ref": "HSRP-674",
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  "category_name": "Civilizational Analysis",
  "supplement": "029",
  "entered": "2026-10-18",
  "evidence": [
    {
      "statement": "Death by Government, ch. 1: \"In total, during the first eighty-eight years of this century, almost 170,000,000 men, women, and children have been shot, beaten, tortured, knifed, burned, starved, frozen, crushed, or worked to death; or buried alive, drowned, hung, bombed, or killed in any other of the myriad ways governments have inflicted death on unarmed, helpless citizens or foreigners.\" [SRC-1257]",
      "sources": [
        "SRC-1257"
      ]
    },
    {
      "statement": "Site epigraph: \"Power kills; absolute power kills absolutely.\" [SRC-1258]",
      "sources": [
        "SRC-1258"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "grade_rationale": "ESTABLISHED as his finding; CONTESTED as to his figures and method",
  "counter_evidence": [
    {
      "statement": "Dulić (2004): \"A comparison with demographic research in former Yugoslavia shows that Rummel's mid-estimates for Tito's mass killings are much too high and contravene his data for the population deficit in Yugoslavia.\" [SRC-1259]",
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        "SRC-1259"
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