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[–] 55 points 5 months ago (1 child)
  • [–] 31 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    It's a holiday in Cambodia!

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  • [–] 21 points 5 months ago (2 children)
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    [–] 41 points 5 months ago (27 children)

    He called himself communist. That doesn't mean he was it.

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  • [+] [S] -25 points 5 months ago (24 children)
  • [–] 24 points 5 months ago (7 children)

    If just saying you're a thing makes you that thing, then I'm god. Worship me.

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  • [–] 9 points 5 months ago (5 children)

    Excuse me, but I have a list of complaints. Also, I need to discuss plot-holes in your fanfic.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    Well, they didn't made the fanfic ig

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    According to the fanfic, he narrated the story to Moses, who wrote it down. It was based on history, but then delved into original narratives, and even introduced new characters. At some point, he inserts an allegory of himself, which is spun off into its own chronicles.

    Sounds exactly like fanfic to me.

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  • [–] 24 points 5 months ago (15 children)

    Murdering 25% of your entire population and enslaving the rest to work the fields doesn't really fit into the definition of communism, as far as I'm aware.

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  • [+] [S] -12 points 5 months ago (13 children)
  • [–] 6 points 4 months ago (12 children)

    A stateless, classless, currencyless society in which the workers own the means of production.

    where does it fit?

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    That's literally the definition of communism. Where does enslaving people make sense? It contradicts with "classless" no?

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 4 months ago (9 children)

    I thought communism had slaves?

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (8 children)

    Literally the opposite of the definition laid out by marx but I think you're trying to be funny and failing

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 4 months ago (7 children)

    What was Pol Pot's official title? General Secretary of the Communist Party of Kampuchea. Right?

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago* (6 children)

    They do not care about implementing communism genuinely, it's a propaganda tactic, you are aware politicians lie, right? This is akin to saying "I'm in the party of building an egalitarian utopia!" And then immediately enslaving half the population. Then you announce actually utopia is bad because this guy is bad. You would have to be an incredible fool to take their word for it and not look at their actions. To think that you think this is an anticommunist gotcha and not a clear case of lying to the public is embarrassing on your part.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 4 months ago (5 children)

    Do you think creating an egalitarian society is possible ?

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago* (1 child)

    The question is irrelevant, we should get as close as possible, and certainly enslaving people is no way to get there. you would have to be insane to not have utopia as the ultimate goal of political power, even if it is unachievable it should obviously be the goal.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (2 children)

    Not in the current state the human race finds itself. Maybe someday, but we are nowhere near there yet. Until then any attempt to create "a stateless, classless, currencyless society in which the workers own the means of production society" will likely fail and devolve into something terrible, whether they have good intentions or not, and whether they call themselves communist or not.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 4 months ago (1 child)

    So how do we know if a communist leader is going to be column A or B before they take power?

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  • [–] 9 points 5 months ago

    I hate that I started to smile at the picture, knowing, fucking knowing, what a huge, colossal, grade-a asshole he was.

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  • [–] 8 points 5 months ago

    If you defocus your eyes, he looks like Elon Musk.

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Me, a Scandinavian Glasses Guy, shuffling his feet nervously.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago

    Well, guessing by his face, he succeeded

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  • [–] 8 points 5 months ago* (2 children)

    Imagine this is your understanding of "communism" and the history of southeast asia. JFC.

    OP's history of pure shitposts checks out.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    khmer rouge, pol pot is so bad even your friendly neighbors had to intervene, after you start slaughtering thier people too.

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