Here are a couple of May Day Links as the blogosphere continues adding to the discussion:

1. Bryan Caplan's interesting counterfactual history: what if a stroke had killed Lenin in 1917?

2. Bryan's online Museum of Communism.

2a. Bryan's article on communism for the Concise Encyclopedia of Economics.

3. R.J. Rummel's democide website.

4. My 11/9/09 post on democide victims.

5. At the "What's Wrong With the World?" panel at Rhodes in September, I claimed that arguments for communism would be wrong. Mises explains why in his classic "Economic Calculation in the Socialist Commonwealth."

6. David Gordon reviews G.A. Cohen's Why Not Socialism?. My review will appear in The Freeman; James Otteson's review will appear in The Independent Review.

7. Romance does not excuse evil. It suggests an interesting exercise in comparative ethics. Who is guilty of the greater crime: the apologist for pedophiles in priestly robes, or the apologist for those who inaugurated campaigns of systematic slaughter in the name of "the people?"

8. Who is that on your t-shirt?