Chairman Mao practiced an exclusive form of collectivism, not through "harmony" but through a generation of murderous "class struggle".
In that world of murderous power struggle, no one took him seriously as a rival, no one thought him worth killing.
Game of Thrones, with its murderous power struggles and internecine civil wars, may not appear an obvious source of inspiration for cricket administrators to follow.
The introduction of democracy has had to contend with terrifying security and logistical problems, the threat of murderous power struggles between warlords, worries about intimidation, and attacks on government and election officials.
The stage on which this prospect was tested was an industry in which a few "dangerous" individuals with "murderous creative passion" struggled against mediocrity and routine, and often lost.
The stage is set for Arun's long but ultimately predictable battle against the murderous mastermind Ishaq Khan, a struggle that takes him (in the guise of an army major) to the Kashmir border, where he promptly encounters the beauteous, good and brave orphan shepherdess Reshma (Preity Zinta).
Following last week's attack in Algeria, Cameron said: "We are in the midst of a long struggle against murderous terrorists and the poisonous ideology that supports them".
Before Kevin, which is about a mother's attempts to understand a wicked and murderous son, Shriver was struggling to earn a living from scraps of journalism tossed to her from the high table of remote commissioning editors.
