So the General Secretary of the Communist Party of Kampuchea from 1963 to 81 wasn't really a follower of Marx?....I mean when he joined that party it was literally called Labour and he helped change it to communist......But Ok......Because if foreign states see him as their man in preference to others....that means, in your head, that he's not a communist.

'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)

I don't deny he called himself a communist. I just cannot see how his actual actions have anything to do with Marx, nor can I see how the US and the UK would back a real communist.

I can see why they/we backed a genocidal murderer, that was just the force of habit. But a communist. No way.

Well, I don't know how much input Thatcher personally had in the policy, that's why I say foreign states.....because that's the truth.

The whole killing fields situation isn't something I know much about in terms of foreign relations nor its connection to communism but I'm quite better versed in what those other Marxist communists did in Russia.....and lets just say that mass murder and communism weren't strangers.

However, unlike you.....I don't claim to deny people's self descriptions as true unless I have a good reason for it......As for this implied idea that Marx supported mass murder....that's not what I've said or meant......However all authoritarian regimes require the oppression of opposition real or imagined.....When I said oppression the reality is murder.

Edited by Stirlingsays (22 Jan 2019 11.55pm)

'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)

I presume there would not be the same debate over Simon Cowell.

Red and Blue Army!

...or Sting

... or Bono

A stairway to Heaven and a Highway to Hell give some indication of expected traffic numbers

Bang goes my ability to sleep at night!