Philosoraptor [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net to the_dunk_tank@hexbear.netEnglish · edit-21 year agoNobody needs revolutionary leftism anymore, because European social democracy cannot be improved on and all imperial projects (except China and Russia) have ceasedhexbear.netimagemessage-square58fedilinkarrow-up1109arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up1109arrow-down1imageNobody needs revolutionary leftism anymore, because European social democracy cannot be improved on and all imperial projects (except China and Russia) have ceasedhexbear.netPhilosoraptor [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net to the_dunk_tank@hexbear.netEnglish · edit-21 year agomessage-square58fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareShareThatBread [he/him, he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·1 year agoI have never seen anyone defend the Khmer Rouge or deny their atrocities. Just conjuring shit from nowhere.
minus-squareaaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·edit-21 year agoQuite a few people did back in the day, including Noam Chomsky and Samir Amin. Nowdays though that all the facts are available, very few people do.
minus-squaredrhead [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·1 year agoMight be referring to Noam Chomsky. If I remember correctly, most of his denial was simply saying that we should be careful about taking refugee accounts at face value (which anyone who has seen any DPRK discourse here will know about).
minus-squareFrank [he/him, he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·1 year agoThere are a couple of extremely weird fringe communists who do, but it’s like finding a shiny togepi.
I have never seen anyone defend the Khmer Rouge or deny their atrocities. Just conjuring shit from nowhere.
Quite a few people did back in the day, including Noam Chomsky and Samir Amin. Nowdays though that all the facts are available, very few people do.
Might be referring to Noam Chomsky. If I remember correctly, most of his denial was simply saying that we should be careful about taking refugee accounts at face value (which anyone who has seen any DPRK discourse here will know about).
There are a couple of extremely weird fringe communists who do, but it’s like finding a shiny togepi.