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The US was the literal blueprint for most of what Nazis did (lemmy.world)

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[–] SpookyBogMonster@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

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?

[–] timdrake@lemmy.ml 0 points 3 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.