Ok, I was making fun of you earlier, but now I’m genuinely interested.
Explain to me why you think Democratic Kampuchea was a Socialist State, and I presume, didn’t actually commit a genocide.
Because as far as I’ve ever been able to tell, pol pot apologia tends to be fairly flimsy, and be coming more from a place of defending China’s position after the Sino-Soviet split, rather than Cambodia itself.
How about the Vietnamese-backed state of the People’s Republic of Kampuchea? Was it Socialist? Why or why not?
There is no strict definition of a “socialist state.” DK was led by a communist party which set out concrete plans for developing a self-sufficient “socialist economy” and a “socialist culture” and was able to follow through on some of those in its short time. There is nothing that makes it “non-socialist” in comparison to other projects.
I presume, didn’t actually commit a genocide
You can presume that based on the fact that the allegation of genocide clearly violates the meaning of the word.
How about the Vietnamese-backed state of the People’s Republic of Kampuchea? Was it Socialist?
Knows nothing about Democratic Kampuchea award
Ok, I was making fun of you earlier, but now I’m genuinely interested.
Explain to me why you think Democratic Kampuchea was a Socialist State, and I presume, didn’t actually commit a genocide.
Because as far as I’ve ever been able to tell, pol pot apologia tends to be fairly flimsy, and be coming more from a place of defending China’s position after the Sino-Soviet split, rather than Cambodia itself.
How about the Vietnamese-backed state of the People’s Republic of Kampuchea? Was it Socialist? Why or why not?
There is no strict definition of a “socialist state.” DK was led by a communist party which set out concrete plans for developing a self-sufficient “socialist economy” and a “socialist culture” and was able to follow through on some of those in its short time. There is nothing that makes it “non-socialist” in comparison to other projects.
You can presume that based on the fact that the allegation of genocide clearly violates the meaning of the word.
I don’t see why not.