Yes, well done. Use a human tragedy for petty political point scoring on a football message board.

Congratulations, you've won Friday.

One could argue that it does work, in that it provides the means by which those regulations and inhibitors of capitalism have come about, and the basis on which that fairness stems. By and large, capitalism has only really proceeded on the basis of compromises made with socialism (capitalism is very good at co-opting models of opposition and criticism into it).

The problem with socialism tends to be it sees capitalist systems as redundant and devoid of value, which is untrue, capitalism has many benefits notably in the capacity to determine value of resources in relation.

Of course its worth noting that in countries where socialism has occurred, it has done so because of the failure of capitalism in the first place. The failure of Russian capitalism to deal with the problems of Russia ultimately led to the Revolutions in Russia.

The point is, you would think that the likes of tux, nick and legal, would surely think that the Socialist policies of the Khmer Rouge are just what was needed, and is indeed needed here now.

Their Socialist regime stated that Cambodia should be a classless society of "perfect harmony" and that private ownership was "the source of egoist feelings and consequently social injustices." (Could be tux, nick or legal speaking). They made Cambodia a cashless nation; the government confiscated all currency. Shops closed, and workers received their pay in the form of food rations, because there was no money in circulation. The economic life described by foreign diplomats, by Western visitors, and by Cambodian refugees in Thai, state that Phnom Penh became a ghost town of only about 10,000 people. There were no shops, post offices, telephones, or telegraph services. Frequent shortages of water and of electricity occurred in all urban areas.

Yet this total state control of absolutely everything is just what tux, nick and legal pine after. Surely their policies should have ushered in a glorious, egalitarian new age?

I don't know if they had an NHS, but as they arrested, tortured and eventually killed all professionals and intellectuals, I guess there must have been a shortage of doctors. Almost everyone with an education, people who understood a foreign language and even people who required glasses (which, according to the regime, meant that they spent too much time reading books instead of working) were purged.

But of course, we will now be told it was all the fault of the USA and the wicked Capitalists. If it wasn't for them, Comrade Pol Pot, would have built a utopia; after all his economic strategy was Socialist to the core.

Edited by derben (12 Jun 2015 1.37pm)

The point is, you would think that the likes of tux, nick and legal, would surely think that the Socialist policies of the Khmer Rouge are just what was needed, and is indeed needed here now.

Their Socialist regime stated that Cambodia should be a classless society of "perfect harmony" and that private ownership was "the source of egoist feelings and consequently social injustices." (Could be tux, nick or legal speaking). They made Cambodia a cashless nation; the government confiscated all currency. Shops closed, and workers received their pay in the form of food rations, because there was no money in circulation. The economic life described by foreign diplomats, by Western visitors, and by Cambodian refugees in Thai, state that Phnom Penh became a ghost town of only about 10,000 people. There were no shops, post offices, telephones, or telegraph services. Frequent shortages of water and of electricity occurred in all urban areas.

Yet this total state control of absolutely everything is just what tux, nick and legal pine after. Surely their policies should have ushered in a glorious, egalitarian new age?

I don't know if they had an NHS, but as they arrested, tortured and eventually killed all professionals and intellectuals, I guess there must have been a shortage of doctors. Almost everyone with an education, people who understood a foreign language and even people who required glasses (which, according to the regime, meant that they spent too much time reading books instead of working) were purged.

But of course, we will now be told it was all the fault of the USA and the wicked Capitalists. If it wasn't for them, Comrade Pol Pot, would have built a utopia; after all his economic strategy was Socialist to the core.

Edited by derben (12 Jun 2015 1.37pm)

Is that a point scored?