Estimated number of women killed as witches in Tanzania each year: 500

Both P.J. O’Rourke in “Eat the Rich” and Joshua Muravchik in “Heaven on Earth: The Rise and Fall of Socialism” reviewed the train wreck that is Tanzania – an economic disaster created by the socialistic fantasy-policies of former president Julius Nyerere.  Tanzania followed all the standard tenets of socialism: one-party rule, forced relocation, centralized planning, collectivized farming, nationalization of industries – and reaped the same results found in China, the Soviet Union, and Cuba – scarcity, corruption, repression, and the inevitable scapegoating when everything goes wrong.