• redhotpepper@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Wikipedia puts the name change at 1971. In what way was the Khmer Rouge not a Communist party? They were literally forcing the entire population onto agricultural communes. One quote from a foreign minister doesn't move the goalpost.

    Vietnam didn't ride in to heroically liberate Cambodia from "pretend communists", it was literally in response to military aggression ordered by Pol Pot.

    • Awoo [she/her]
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      edit-2
      1 year ago

      Wikipedia puts the name change at 1971. In what way was the Khmer Rouge not a Communist party?

      They only declared their politics to be communist publicly when Mao asked them to, presumably because he was suspicious that they were not and felt that publicly stating it made it politically easier on him to offer the (mistaken) support to them that he did.

      Vietnam didn't ride in to heroically liberate Cambodia from "pretend communists", it was literally in response to military aggression ordered by Pol Pot.

      And yet that is what happened. They did heroically liberate Cambodia, and they were absolutely revisionists at best. I don't see how this is difficult for you to understand, the fact that they dissolved and ceased being ""communist"" as soon as it was politically beneficial to do so should be enough to you to show you their commitment to communism as an ideology was paper thin at best. And that's completely ignoring the fact that all of their actions were out of line with communist theory.

      Wikipedia puts the name change at 1971. In what way was the Khmer Rouge not a Communist party?

    • KarlBarqs [he/him, they/them]
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      1 year ago

      In what way was the Khmer Rouge not a Communist party?

      In literally every way that matters. A name is just a name, a political party can call themselves anything they want, and none of their politics were communist in any way.

      Granted, you're probably one of those dipshits who thinks the Nazis were socialist, given your fixation on names.

    • mustardman [none/use name]
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      1 year ago

      They were literally forcing the entire population onto agricultural communes

      Ah yes the official and only definition of communism 🤡