All I know is that if you call Pol Pot a communist, the thought police usual suspects will come along and yell at you. Anyway....
Just like you would yell at me if I called Hitler a capitalist.
(No seriously. Turn off your memories of what happened after '33, much of which would have also happened under a purely hypothetical genuinely popular DNVP government anyways. Hitler had greater crossover appeal than the DNVP because his program is basically the same minus those bits that both were extreme right and didn't sell. And not surprisingly, his election base in 32/3 was virtually identical to Hindenburg's in 25. It's a statistical fact. It's a really unusually high correlation, .89 IIRC.)
I know, I was just pointing out how ridiculous it is for dead0man to claim Pol Pot represents communism given that what he did completely contradicts Marxist theory.
Did Hitler consider/call himself a capitalist? Did his enemies call him a capitalist? I'm pretty sure he consider himself an anti-capitalist. Did Pol Pot consider himself an anti-communist?
Now, I'm not suggesting Pol Pot was a 100%, by the book, communist...but is anybody a 100%, by the book, anything? I'm not even suggesting Pol Pot was a "regular" communist (whatever the fark that would be), he was a murderous jackass first and foremost and I totally understand somebody with communist sympathies would want to distance himself as far from Pol Pot as one could get....and really, there is NOTHING I or anyone else could say that would change your mind...which leads me to stop right now...enjoy your handwaving sir!
