False assumptions mass murder people (like climate change denial) and correct ones save millions (like correct preemptive action against climate change). Montesquieu was successful in identifying the tripartite division of powers. If Marxism ended up killing people, how many lives has Montesquieu’s theory saved—if we understand the question in an indirect, non-linear sense? How about liberal democracy, human rights, market economy, free enterprise, the welfare state; how many lives have these saved, how many have they improved? What would have happened if these ideas had not taken hold? What
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