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2024.05.18 23:34 Joshh170 PC Gamers Have 4 Games to Claim for Free Right Now
Between Steam and the Epic Games Store, PC gamers have four free games they can claim right now. PC gamers are treated to free games on a regular basis between various digital storefronts. Free Steam games are often given away by the developers and publishers themselves, whereas the Epic Games Store free game giveaways are a weekly occurrence that happens through the launcher. submitted by Joshh170 to GameGeeks [link] [comments] The Epic Games Store gives away at least one free game every week, and has been doing so for years at this point. PC gamers know that they can log in to the Epic Games Store launcher every Thursday at 10:00am CT and snag a free game or two for their digital libraries. Free Steam games are much more difficult to predict since they don't follow any specific pattern. There are times when multiple games are free on Steam at once, and currently, there are three games PC users can claim through the platform. Combine that with the weekly Epic Games Store giveaway, and PC gamers have four games to claim right now. On Steam, PC gamers can claim 100% Orange Juice, Endless Legend, and Machinika Museum for free. The Epic Games Store, meanwhile, is giving away Dragon Age: Inquisition - Game of the Year Edition completely free of charge. None of these freebies are permanent, so PC gamers will want to claim the free games as soon as possible. Free Steam Games May 2024 100% Orange Juice - until May 22 Endless Legend - until May 23 Machinika Museum - until May 27 For those unfamiliar with the three free Steam games, 100% Orange Juice is a multiplayer board game that was released in 2013 and has a "Very Positive" overall review score. Similarly, Endless Legend also has a "Very Positive" overall review score, with the fantasy-based 4X strategy game also boasting an impressive 84 rating from professional critics as well. And finally, Machinika Museum is a 3D puzzle game that was also very well-received by Steam users. Steam users interested in adding these games to their collections need to do so by May 22, May 23, and May 27 for 100% Orange Juice, Endless Legend, and Machinika Museum, respectively. Epic Games Store Free Game Right Now Dragon Age: Inquisition - until May 23 at 10:00am CT In the meantime, Epic Games Store users have until May 23 at 10:00am CT to grab Dragon Age: Inquisition - Game of the Year Edition. Getting Dragon Age: Inquisition for free is an absolute steal. The 2014 RPG won Game of the Year at the inaugural Game Awards, and this version of the game includes all the DLC expansions, giving players a complete experience. With Dragon Age: Dreadwolf reportedly nearing the end of its development, the Dragon Age: Inquisition freebie couldn't have come at a better time. Come May 23, Dragon Age Inquisition will be rotated out of availability and replaced by a new EGS free game. The Epic Games Store mystery game promotion is back, so fans don't know for sure what next week's free game is yet, but it will be interesting to see if it can match the high bar set by Dragon Age: Inquisition. |
2024.05.18 22:45 Aggravating-Set7931 Race Report: Leeds Marathon
Goal | Description | Completed? |
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A | Sub 3:30 | No |
B | Sub 3:45 | Yes |
C | Finish Strong | Yes |
Section | Time |
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10KM | 0:51:26 |
20KM | 1:41:09 |
HALF | 1:46:31 |
30KM | 2:32:57 |
40KM | 3:24:26 |
42.2KM | 3:35:35 |
2024.05.18 22:02 ansi09 The Weekly Colosseum Codex Has Been Published May 18-2024
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2024.05.18 05:56 FakeElectionMaker Ioannis Konstantinos was born in Thessaloniki, Greece, on 17 November 1953, to a military father that had fought against the communists in the Greek Civil War, and his second wife.
Konstantinos attended an elementary school in the city and later Athens Polytechnic University, graduating in 1975 with a PhD in business administration. By then, he already stood for the right-wing political views he has implemented in Greece, criticizing the university uprising against the military junta as an "anarcho-communist revolution". submitted by FakeElectionMaker to GustavosAltUniverses [link] [comments] In 1978, the 25 year-old Ioannis Konstantinos founded a construction company, IKAK (IK Anomymous Society), that participated in public works across Greece and had an internal code surprisingly fair to workers. IKAK also provided financial donations to New Democracy's electoral campaigns, and by the mid-1980s was a thriving business. It was during the late 1980s when Konstantinos began expanding his business empire beyond construction, founding electronics (1989), logistical (1987) and chemical (1993) companies. He turned into one of the richest people in Greece, and tried to pay as little in taxes as legally possible; when Konstantinos entered politics, his sons inherited his non-football related businesses. During the Yugoslav Wars, Konstantinos supported the "Orthodox patriotic" Serbia against the "Turk barbarians", and denied the Srebernica massacre had taken place, a position he publicly maintained until 2009. These positions put him out of step with ND, and although the businessman supported Konstantinos Mitsotakis' economic policies, he shifted his support to Political Spring until 1996. In 2004, Konstantinos – who had opposed the Lisbon Treaty in the meantime, and strongly campaigned against its ratification – bought AEK Athens for €500 million, reforming the team's structure to be more like that of a business, increasing the role of fans in decision-making, using the internet to gather football fans, and buying several new players. Those measures helped AEK win the 2006–07 SLG season. On 10 January 2007, he nominally resigned from his football chairmanship to lead the national conservative, right-wing populist and economic nationalist party he founded on 7 September 2005 and legally registered on 11 February 2006, while continuing to control the team through a subordinate. |
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I saw this on fb and I actually cannot stop laughing. There’s no way this isn’t a troll or some sort of fan fic, right?? RIGHT?? submitted by No-Cheesecake-223 to travisandtaylor [link] [comments] |
2024.05.17 18:05 David_Lo_Pan007 Chinese cyberattacks have surged: security agency - Taipei Times
Cyberattacks from China have surged to 2.5 million per day as it intensifies its “gray zone” activities ahead of president-elect William Lai’s (賴清德) inauguration on Monday next week, the National Security Bureau (NSB) said yesterday at a meeting of the legislatures’ Foreign Affairs and National Defense Committee. submitted by David_Lo_Pan007 to Wing_Kong_Exchange [link] [comments] |
2024.05.17 17:56 Tern_Larvidae-2424 2024 ICC Men's T20 World Cup [Preview #5] - India
Player | Runs | Average | Strike Rate | Wickets | Average | Economy |
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R Sharma | 520 | 28.88 | 140.92 | - | - | - |
Y Jaiswal* | 502 | 33.46 | 161.93 | - | - | - |
V Kohli | 741 | 52.92 | 140.34 | 0 | - | 6.00 |
S Yadav | 857 | 53.56 | 161.39 | - | - | - |
R Pant | 246 | 20.50 | 134.42 | - | - | - |
S Samson | 316 | 21.06 | 137.39 | - | - | - |
H Pandya | 384 | 27.22 | 122.29 | 19 | 22.31 | 7.57 |
R Jadeja | 317 | 45.28 | 145.41 | 18 | 22.94 | 6.90 |
A Patel | 199 | 22.11 | 153.07 | 18 | 24.77 | 7.15 |
S Dube | 275 | 45.83 | 147.84 | 8 | 43.87 | 9.75 |
J Bumrah | 0 | - | - | 23 | 18.52 | 6.20 |
A Singh | 28 | 7.00 | 164.70 | 25 | 23.52 | 8.64 |
M Siraj* | 7 | 7.00 | 87.50 | 12 | 27.83 | 8.78 |
K Yadav | 26 | 8.66 | 66.66 | 28 | 15.92 | 6.57 |
Y Chahal | 1 | - | 50.00 | 21 | 26.61 | 8.42 |
Player [Matches] | Runs | Average | Strike Rate | Wickets | Average | Economy |
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R Sharma [39] | 963 | 34.39 | 127.88 | 0 | - | 10.00 |
V Kohli [27] | 1141 | 81.50 | 131.30 | 2 | 23.00 | 8.11 |
S Yadav [10] | 281 | 56.20 | 181.29 | - | - | - |
R Pant [7] | 87 | 21.75 | 122.53 | - | - | - |
H Pandya [16] | 213 | 23.66 | 136.53 | 13 | 25.30 | 9.13 |
R Jadeja [22] | 95 | 15.83 | 96.93 | 21 | 25.19 | 7.14 |
A Patel [5] | 9 | 4.50 | 100.00 | 3 | 38.33 | 8.62 |
J Bumrah [10] | 0 | - | 00.00 | 11 | 22.54 | 6.41 |
A Singh [6] | 2 | - | 200.00 | 10 | 15.60 | 7.80 |
2024.05.17 17:23 camasparent123 Educate First coalition of Clark County residents that believe our state legislature needs to address statewide budget shortfalls
2024.05.17 17:22 camasparent123 Educate First coalition of Clark County residents that believe our state legislature needs to address statewide budget shortfalls
2024.05.17 17:21 camasparent123 Educate First coalition of Clark County residents that believe our state legislature needs to address statewide budget shortfalls
2024.05.17 17:12 camasparent123 Educate First coalition of Clark County residents that believe our state legislature needs to address statewide budget shortfalls
2024.05.17 15:13 PorridgeCranium2 Top mind has a really bad case of main character syndrome. As a child they could have never imagined they'd grow up to be a "meme warrior" battling against a "Satanic death cult/crime syndicate intent on enslaving [them]..." They're very important!
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2024.05.17 08:38 ravedeath1917 Kommunistisches Programm – National Revolution and Downfall of Cambodia (1980)
The Events after the Fall of Phnom Penh and the Programme of Khieu Samphan, the Peasantry and the Enablers of Capital
With the end of the Indochina war in 1975, not much remained of Cambodia’s economy either. More than half of the rice fields lay fallow, and the few industrial enterprises, the port facilities in Kampong Som, the railway lines and the bridges had been destroyed by US bombs. Although the figures are not unambiguous, their magnitude alone shows what heavy blood sacrifice imperialism also demanded of this people: In the five years of war, around 800,000 people were killed, more than 40,000 were maimed, almost 200,000 were wounded.
The constant flow of refugees inflated the capital from its original population of around 600,000 to over 3 million, meaning that by the end of the war almost half of the Khmer people were crammed into their metropolis. As is well known, the imperialist world press howled in horror and disgust when it learned of the forced exodus of this human aggregation. The US bombardment drove people from the countryside into the cities – the revolutionary nationalists had to force them back. Both actions were cruel and devastating for those affected, because both times they happened under terrible conditions, the first time under the imperialist hail of bombs and the coercion of its local police, the second time under the pressure of hunger and the state coercion of the newly installed revolutionary patriotic power. But for the imperialist propaganda machine there were no connections here. Of course, it only saw the terror of the Khmer Rouge, so supposedly of Communism. Here again was a wonderful opportunity to play out the bourgeois farce of humanism and love of one’s neighbour to the full. No mention of the mass murders in the imperialist war against the Southeast Asian peoples, no mention of the unspeakable destruction of these only weakly industrialised agrarian societies. These sacrifices were noticed at most when the insane war spending of the USA threatened to drag the entire imperialist West into the vortex of economic problems as a result of the currency crises caused by it. After all, to this day, these gentlemen are consistently proud of their efforts to preserve “freedom”.
Cambodia became the main object of these friends of mankind over the next few years. Here, indeed, all cherished values and conceptions were thrown overboard. A state without money, without postal services, without cars and motorbikes, without public transport, without telephones, television, books and the cities extinct. Only “communists” could have committed this crime; as is well known, they can be trusted with anything inhumane and in Cambodia they truly acted as the incarnation of “darkness” and “evil”. What was perpetrated before in the name of the heroes of “light” and “reason” – not a word about that, of course. It was a central organ of the imperialist offensive on the human intellect – Reader’s Digest – that first announced in 1977 that at least 1.2 million people had been murdered in the two years since the fall of Phnom Penh. Ever new figures were quickly added, which journalists claimed to have learned from the numerous refugees. It is not necessary to assume that all these reports were forgeries, because in fact the Khmer Rouge set an extremely radical course from the beginning, which certainly brought much horror, misery and also deaths. But today’s sated imperialists should perhaps sometimes look at the history books: What misery, what terror, what torment against the population is archived there – and that over centuries. The French Revolution also produced at least 100,000 deaths in the most important four years – and it did so with a machine specially designed for the purpose. It was not by chance that it was the steam engine and the guillotine that inaugurated the industrial age in a revolutionary way. But do the distinguished British gentlemen, who even then scoffed at these butchers in Paris, have fewer lives on their consciences? Those who still don’t know have to have it written on their cheat sheets all the time: The establishment of bourgeois rule has always been brutal and extremely bloody. The destruction of the traditional smallholder form of economy, the annihilation of small-scale trade and crafts always passed over those affected like a merciless steamroller. And under unspeakable tortures, the majority of these people who were expropriated without compensation were pressed into the factories and, if necessary, forced by brutal violence to slave as many hours of their day as possible for the lowest possible wages. All that was not so long ago. But it is always amusing how hastily today’s representatives of capital pretend that these are youthful sins of foreign predecessors. And this process of constant dressing for factory labour, of the destruction of both man and nature, continues both in depth and in breadth. It will only come to an end when this capitalist basis has been revolutionarily annihilated because of the contradictions it constantly produces.
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However, if one wants to understand the “mysterious” processes in Cambodia, one has to be clear above all about the material and social conditions. A devastated country that was still largely worked by small peasants; a chaotically bloated capital city to which the majority of these same peasants had fled. The terror of the bombs had charged this population, once peaceful and living in the eternal grind of farm labour, with fear, but above all with unbridled rage and blind hatred. Hatred against the city in which they had to take refuge, anger against the American bombers which destroyed their existence, but particularly anger against their own corrupt aristocracy, the military as well as the city dwellers in general who sought to prolong their raison d’être by making a pact with imperialism. Now the old mixture of foreignness, subservient spirit and unease found its general discharge in a primal hatred of the rural population for their oppressors in the cities. A frenzy of revenge arose, which certainly accounted for most of the brutalities in the first year of liberation.
In order to understand this social side of this revolution in Cambodia, which gave it the ferocious expression of blood, revenge and chaos that one encounters in practically every revolution carried out mainly by peasants, one must always bear in mind the social structure already described. The strong urban-rural divide was not between agriculture and industry – the latter was practically non-existent – but it was the extreme contrast between agriculture and all the ominous trades that bourgeois statistics usually classify under the heading of “services”. Here, actually “unproductive” administration and trade – moreover, predominantly created and nourished in the service of imperialism – and “productive” agriculture faced each other. Of the “peace population” in Phnom Penh of about 600,000, this included about 200,000 Vietnamese and over 100,000 Chinese, out of a total of about 800,000. So the Cambodians did not even make up the majority of the population in their capital. Aristocracy and officials on one side, poor peasants on the other, too poor to make a living in the countryside, coming to the city because they hoped for a job, or later bombed into it. Cambodians were almost completely excluded from the trade and merchant sectors. These sectors were mainly in the hands of the Chinese and Vietnamese.
In this approaching whirlwind of social unrest on the part of the peasants, which is growing in strength, another social force tries for its survival. Young intellectuals, most of them educated in Paris, the educational centre of the former colonial ruler, want to break the corrupt tangle of local aristocracy and foreign power by force. Without any reservoir in the own ranks of the urban bourgeoisie, for the latter is practically non-existent and if it is, then hardly to be enthused for nationalist accumulation programmes with a more rigorous cut; without a proper bourgeois class, these petty-bourgeois radicals lead a practically hopeless struggle for change. Forced very soon into the rural underground by Sihanouk’s authoritarian regime, they try to implement their programme of industrialisation based on agriculture with the help of the only social class that counts – namely the rural population, the small peasants and farm workers.
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One simply has to quote these illuminating passages of the Khmer Rouge’s “chief ideologist” at length, because after all the imperialist wailing, one probably does not think it possible that these “monsters” can think at all. (A Trotskyist group, persistent in its obtuseness, even opined that these “monsters” were the embodiment of… a return to feudalism!) One thing is immediately quite clear: these petty-bourgeois intellectuals, widely referred to as Marxists, communists, etc., are never ever in the tradition of the “German” Karl Marx, but of the German Friedrich List, who, under the slogan “Freedom is the goal, limitation is the necessity”, set his protectionist credo against the imperialist ideology of the free traders in the last century. The Khmer Rouge leaders are thus spiritual sons of the ancestors of today’s imperialists, those imperialists who now see in them the personified devil of communism, although they only wanted to be flesh of their flesh.
These views of Samphan and thus the leaders of the Khmer Rouge were also quoted at length because they are so popular today. In the face of the growing exploitation of the countries of the so-called Third World by Western imperialism, theories are emerging everywhere that vehemently propose the same position of “cutting off” the “underdeveloped” countries from the dominance of the world market ruled by Western capital as a panacea. And it is certainly no coincidence that one of the main representatives of these academic “revolutionaries”, the Egyptian Samir Amin, raves about the radicalism of the Khmer Rouge even after their expulsion and predicts a chain of new “Kampucheas” for the African future. Against the massive reality of the increasing internationalisation of capital and the growing global control of Western and increasingly Eastern imperialism, such “progressive” petty-bourgeois theorists place their faith in autarky, national accumulation and so-called autocentric development. Against the capitalist propaganda of progress and prosperity through freedom of trade and capital investment, which in reality in fact produces nothing but growing pauperisation and exploitation, the Good News on the other side says: Only if one can free oneself from imperialism at least for as long as it takes to be able to develop one’s productive forces independently, only then will one achieve prosperity and security for humanity.
In this respect, both sides represent only two sides of the same coin. Both claim to be able to achieve “the greatest happiness for the greatest number” within the framework of and through capitalism – as the forefather of these bourgeois tendencies, Adam Smith, already formulated this elementary lie of capital.
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The utopians of capital have to acknowledge time and again that, contrary to their proclamations, the social antagonisms both within the “developed” and “underdeveloped” countries and between these countries are becoming increasingly acute. And while capitalism is pushing the development of the productive forces ever more sharply in order to satisfy its insatiable hunger for surplus value, it is precisely because of this highly productive technology that it is less and less able to transform the pauperised masses into active proletarians, i.e. to force them to the machines or into the office. While the imperialists, in their frenzied mania for surplus value, are at least throwing the whole world into growing unrest and undermining ancestral immobile relations ever more thoroughly, the heralds of an apparently radical autarky are causing nothing but confusion in the ranks of the pauperising masses. They talk of economic independence, stable economic cycles and adapted technology – all concepts that really bring out their illusionist anachronism.
And to see Cambodia of all places as a concrete approach or even an example for the feasibility of such utopias seems almost tragicomic in view of the results that are now available. But it is also a total misreading of the factual development under the Pol Pot government. Demonisation and idealisation of the Khmer Rouge have the same basis. They assume that the measures taken after the conquest of power in Cambodia were deliberate and planned. One side sees only the terror and coercive measures with which the leaders, supported by relatively small armed forces, tried to get a grip on a witch’s cauldron of panic and violence and to escape the total catastrophe of starvation – and the chaos that would ensue in turn. They see this terror and these coercive measures as completely detached from the economic and social emergency. The others confuse the factual state of extreme social backwardness in Cambodia and the emergency measures taken with an economic and social programme.
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We have outlined the devastating situation in Cambodia shortly before the moment of liberation. However broad and deep the peasant unrest in the countryside may have been at the time, it must be remembered that a large proportion of these peasants stayed in the capital out of necessity during the main phase of the fighting. In any case, the Khmer Rouge, hardly more than 70,000 men anyway, fought for a long time mainly in the sparsely populated outskirts of Cambodia.
When the Khmer Rouge troops approached the capital in 1975 – likely with only about 20,000 men – it soon became clear that it was imperative to deal radically with this hopelessly bloated big head. Estimates vary, but it can be assumed that of the 7-8 million Cambodians, at least 2.5, but probably over 3 million were crammed into the capital (“peace population” as mentioned 600,000). With the severing of the umbilical cord to imperialism, Phnom Penh was up in the air as its former bridgehead. There was no possibility whatsoever to control or even feed this veritable hell of collaborators and starving refugee masses. The general shortage of rice had driven prices to dizzying heights: from 10 riel per kilo in December 1971 to 125 riel in December 1973 and on to 300 riel in early 1975, reaching a record 340 riel in mid-February. The retreat of the imperialists and the advance of the Khmer Rouge must have acted as a double signal: On the one hand, to storm against the hated parasites and the urbanites in general, on the other hand, to return to the countryside in chaos. The Khmer Rouge had to evacuate the city and channel the returning flow to avoid a total catastrophe. The fact that the displaced people left a wide trail of blood behind them on their way out of the city (for the time of the Khmer Rouge government, there is consistent talk of at least 1 million deaths) was unavoidable under the given conditions. It is significant that the majority of the massacres affected the urban population and certain national minorities: precisely intellectuals, military officers of the old Lon Nol regime, Sihanoukists, capitalists, merchants etc., and apart from the Cham (Muslims) almost exclusively the Vietnamese and Chinese minorities, whose social situation we have already pointed out.
Whether it was spontaneous peasant terror or executions organised by the Khmer Rouge, it was partly revolutionary violence against the supporters of the old regime, which as such does not speak against but for the Khmer Rouge, and partly pogroms, which the leaders at most accepted and tried to direct in the interests of the state monopoly on the use of force. But it is not so important whether the Khmer Rouge leaders had to accept or order these massacres. What is decisive is that they were forced by material development to eliminate or to have eliminated precisely those strata on which they wanted to rely. This, together with the evacuation of the cities, deprived them of any social support other than the peasantry. Thus they were at the mercy of this peasantry, which had to be disciplined for the actualisation of their “programme”. The conflict with it was therefore programmed for the time after the famine had been averted.
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After the worst of the chaos had been overcome, it was attempted to use these structures, which had prevailed in a rather primitive way during the hunger phase, for one’s “industrialisation programme” by maintaining and further intensifying collectivisation. Necessity was to become a capitalist virtue. The complete lack of such “civilisational” achievements as the intercourse of money and commodities was supposed to make for an ideal, indeed classic, “truck system”, i.e. payment in kind alone. The peasants were forced into ever new production battles, because now surpluses were to be produced for export – i.e. for exchange with foreign means of production – which indeed happened and animated the leaders even further. The general command was under the iron slogan: “Work hard and try to achieve maximum results with a minimum of investment”, and the focus was on absolute labour effort.
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Once a sufficient level of production had been restored, however, the whole construction was bound to collapse completely sooner rather than later. Anyone who has even a pale inkling of the travails of the infamous Stalinist collectivisation in Russia – and the Russian state was on an incomparably higher social level and had quite different means of power at its disposal – can easily imagine how the intellectual would-be enablers of capitalism in Cambodia, then practically hanging in the air, would have to perish in an orgy of violence – unless, with the help of a foreign power, they could get a grip on the chaos and create more stable conditions through a series of concessions to the peasantry. Most likely, however, they would be finished even then, like a man trying to hold on as long as possible to a wildly thrashing bull and then falling to the ground exhausted. In any case, the arena crowd was already eagerly awaiting the outcome of the tragedy.
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Sovereignty, neutrality, non-alignment – this credo runs through all declarations as a complement to “autarky”. But already in the face of the first offensive by the Vietnamese, it must have slowly become clear to the Khmer Rouge leaders that these fine words could only have one meaning in our unpleasant world, namely to place themselves under the protection of the People’s Republic of China. In Pol Pot’s interview, which we have just quoted, a strange acronym appears: CPK. This means “Communist Party of Kampuchea”. And yet, to the boundless amazement of bourgeois commentators, the Khmer Rouge had never tried to dress up their declarations or their constitution with Marxist or pseudo-Marxist vocabulary – which is certainly very sympathetic to us. On the contrary, they have displayed an obvious and pedantic aversion to these concepts. Neither “vanguard of the proletariat” or “communist party” nor “proletarian internationalism”, neither “classless society” nor “dictatorship of the proletariat”, but also not “new democratic revolution”, “mass line”, “creation of a new man”, “peaceful coexistence” etc. etc. had ever been spoken of. If similar contents had to be expressed, they were paraphrased with other words. But this did not happen because the Pol Pot folks would have been particularly honest and wanted to do us Marxists a favour. This happened because in their dogged nationalism they wanted to distance themselves clearly from their neighbours Vietnam, but also China, who professed to be “socialist”. The national character of all these revolutions and states, the national character of their confrontations and of their whole politics is expressed even in the fact that the weakest link feels compelled by the instinct of self-preservation to dispense with the “Marxist” or “socialist” cloak for the capitalist programme! This is what “socialism in one country” has come to! And the adoption of the “Marxist” “vocabulary” here is a sign of the surrender of the so sacred national sovereignty. If, as already mentioned, no announcement had ever mentioned a party or revolutionary phases (there was always talk of a “revolutionary organisation” and even of “Angkor traditions”), Pol Pot told his astonished people and all those who wanted to know the following story on 27 September 1977: the CPK had already existed in Cambodia since 30 September 1960 and had achieved this miracle of a national-democratic revolution. He told it the day before he left for Beijing, on which, fighting a losing battle against the Vietnamese, he has been completely dependent ever since.
As a “plaything of foreign powers”, the nationalist intellectuals of Cambodia perished. The peasantry, largely decimated under the pressure of the imperialist frenzy and its consequences, as now under the pressure of Vietnam’s national expansion, is an example of the fate that capitalist society reserves for small and weak peoples in its emergence and development. To such peoples the proletariat alone would and will secure the right of self-determination, because unlike the bourgeoisie it does not seek national privileges but wants to abolish them, because unlike the bourgeoisie it can create voluntary union, because unlike the bourgeoisie it liberates itself not by exploiting others but by abolishing all exploitation.
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