NY Times has an article on the Great Leap Forward. Which led to an interesting discussion about intentions at Instapundit.
It’s interesting that because the first academic knew Marxists as people, they weren’t evil. Since he/she didn’t know any Nazis, they are still mass murdering jerks. People are people and very, very few do evil things with no justification of a greater good.
bugmenot for the NYT.
Not So Fast 