The one example I kept thinking about while reading your post was the Khmer Rouge and how they strived to achieve what they saw as the perfect form of communism and they ended up massacaring a quarter of the Cambodian population.
The one example I kept thinking about while reading your post was the Khmer Rouge and how they strived to achieve what they saw as the perfect form of communism and they ended up massacaring a quarter of the Cambodian population.
Absolutely. And Lenin's disastrous attempt to end money (quickly followed by the "New Economic Policy"), and his forced collectivization of farms and murder of kulaks. The number of deaths is staggering, in the tens of millions.
The one example I kept thinking about while reading your post was the Khmer Rouge and how they strived to achieve what they saw as the perfect form of communism and they ended up massacaring a quarter of the Cambodian population.
Absolutely. And Lenin's disastrous attempt to end money (quickly followed by the "New Economic Policy"), and his forced collectivization of farms and murder of kulaks. The number of deaths is staggering, in the tens of millions.
Yup.