• SpookyBogMonster@lemmy.ml
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        14 days ago

        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?

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          13 days ago

          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?

          I don’t see why not.