Reply #37: False. The Khmer Rouge folded when their leader died -- that's Fascism

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And they were anti-intellectual: an absolute tip-off that they were Fascist. The Killing Fields.

Fascism combats . . . not intelligence, but intellectualism . . . which is . . . a sickness of the intellect . . . not a consequence of its abuse, because the intellect cannot be used too much . . . it derives from the false belief that one can segregate oneself from life. . . . ”

— Giovanni Gentile, addressing a Congress of Fascist Culture, Bologna, 30 March 1925
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-intellectualism

all power belonged to the Standing Committee of CPK, the membership of which was comprised by the Secretary and Prime Minister Pol Pot, his Deputy Secretary Nuon Chea and seven others.

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Family ties were important, both because of the culture and because of the leadership's intense secretiveness and distrust of outsiders, especially of pro-Vietnamese communists. Greed was also a motive. Different ministries, such as the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Industry, were controlled and exploited by powerful Khmer Rouge families. Administering the diplomatic corps was regarded as an especially profitable fiefdom.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Kampuchea

That doesn't sound like Socialism to me. It sounds like where the 1% have brought the USA to today. A wealthy class on top and a dispensable majority who must be controlled or killed. Reflect on the brutal police tactics against the OWS protesters and notice the Fascist similarities.