On Dec 4, 10:38*pm, Fred Williams wrote:
Dänk 1010011010 wrote:
Tomorrow I take a 12-hour bus trip from Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam to
Siem Reap, Cambodia.

The Cambodian people are still recovering from a horrific Communist
revolution/genocide that occurred in the 1970s. *Pol Pot believed that
the bourgeoisie must be purged if the Revolution to succeed, so he
killed everyone educated in the old ways, including doctors, lawyers,
engineers, and even people with glasses because he thought they looked
educated.

* * * * It wasn't communism then was it?

It was probably a purer form of communism than other communist
revolutions, which typically stop at the socialist stage. Socialism
differs from theoretical communism in that communism is classless,
while socialism has two classes - the ruling elite and the
proletariat.

Of course, after exterminating the old elite, the Khmer Rouge became
the new elite, so it wasn't a truly communist society. True communism
is leaderless, which is unnatural for human beings and thus an
impossible form of society.