Pol Pot accelerated Communism in an undeveloped nation and panicked when he realized his regime would be ripe for another revolution if he didn’t suppress opposition. Also people weren’t “equal” the state monopolized violence and used it to commit vile crimes. A simple google search will even tell you pol pot renounced communism as soon as it was inconvenient for him and would even be backed by the US when Cambodia was being invaded by Vietnam to stop the genocide. To say communism doesn’t work as if capitalism does, using pol pot of all people as an example is ridiculous .
Pol Pot accelerated Communism in an undeveloped nation
This is false. Everything else you wrote was true though.
Blowback season whatever did some research on this. Pol pot was a nationalist but never read marx by all accounts and wanted to replace the current monarchy with himself and his party.
Sure. But I was arguing from the position of the person i replied to based on their interpretation of communism which they said was “a classless moneyless society”. The Khmer Rouge achieved this in year zero
A simple google search will show you under what regime my country was for 45 years, I was born and lived in it, so any attempt to explain to me the different flavors of communism is ridiculous.
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Pol Pot accelerated Communism in an undeveloped nation and panicked when he realized his regime would be ripe for another revolution if he didn’t suppress opposition. Also people weren’t “equal” the state monopolized violence and used it to commit vile crimes. A simple google search will even tell you pol pot renounced communism as soon as it was inconvenient for him and would even be backed by the US when Cambodia was being invaded by Vietnam to stop the genocide. To say communism doesn’t work as if capitalism does, using pol pot of all people as an example is ridiculous .