VLVL defining terms

[jbor]

>> Most absurd of all, of course, is the claim
>> that the Khmer Rouge weren't communist.

> That all depends upon how you define Communism.

communism - a social and political ideology advocating that authority and
property be vested in the community, each member working for the common
benefit according to capacity and receiving according to needs

Khmer Rouge - Cambodian communist movement that was formed to resist the
right wing, US-backed regime of Lon Nol after the latter's military coup in
1970

Cf. also Rex Snuvvle - character in Thomas Pynchon's _Vineland_, a
Californian graduate student of Southeast Asian studies who, in 1968, is
obsessed by the prospect of a "true" Bolshevik-Leninist revolution in
Indo-China 

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