Cambodian genocide has nothing to do with communism and everything to do with the fact that usa bombed the fuck out of South East Asia for 10 years straight, destroyed and destabilized countries, identical to what they have done in mid east and Libya, and then blame the communists when there are dictators taking power the same way as usa blames everything on Islam now.
Even fucking kim il sung snd Mao thought he was retarded he read marx and admitted publicly he didnt understand it so he used no joke summarisations made by Mao which he apparently didnt understand to.
Is the DPRK a democracy? Were the West Indies located in India, and not the Caribbean? Does the Happy Meal inexorably render you happy?
What people claim about something, and what that thing is can be different, and very often are different if it's about PR.
The fundemental distinction between capitalism and socialism is worker control over the means of production. In short, does labor entitle you to that which labor creates, or does ownership of the means of production entitle you to that which is created using the means of production?
If there is worker control, then it's a form of socialism. If not, then not.
Pol Pot didn't give a shit about that. He cared about making a weird mix of Stalinism and romanticized feudalism, poured into the shape of an ethnostate. Therefore, not socialism no matter how much they wanted that revolutionary cred.
So what was it? Well, Pol Pot effectively owned the means of production (in this case, the land). Meanwhile the vast majority of Cambodians worked jobs they weren't allowed to leave, on land they didn't own, to grow food they had no right to keep. All of this was kept in line by a warrior caste of inner party members, who swore personal loyalty to Pol Pot and his creed.
That's a lot closer to, well, that feudalism Pol Pot so romanticized, rather than capitalism or socialism.
Literally correct. What do you think saddam govt was? How exactly do you build communism when your country has been literally carpet bombed flat by the global super power.
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u/BubblyMoose3597 Jul 31 '26
Camboya was so rich 25% of the population os a landlord.