Stone Age Communism

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The term Stone Age communism is used to criticize the behavior of regimes that describe themselves as communist or socialist and try to create particularly egalitarian social structures by radically destroying the structures of modern urban society . The accusation of stone age communism was made in particular regimes in Albania , Cambodia and North Korea .

For educational reasons and for lack of resources, people were sometimes indiscriminately recruited in North Korea, sometimes alleged or actual political opponents were seized and forced to do agricultural or handicrafts under extremely primitive conditions in labor camps . Often the means of previous expropriation and separation of socially grown groups, especially families , were advanced. The measures were aimed at forming a "new man", as it was expressed in the propaganda language of the regimes concerned. These regimes accepted the impoverishment and death of these groups or murdered like the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia. There in particular this resembled “ annihilation through work ”.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Detlef Kleinert: Willibald Pahr. Foreign Minister under Kreisky. Analysis of current affairs. Böhlau, Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-205-78523-1 , p. 87 (on Albania).
  2. ^ Rupert Neudeck: Always radical. From Cap Anamur to the green helmets (= Forum Humanity and Ethics. Volume 3). Lit, Münster 2012, ISBN 978-3-825-85601-4 , p. 75 (on Albania).
  3. ^ Pierre Rigoulot: North Korea. Stone Age Communism and Nuclear Weapons. Anatomy of a crisis. Kiepenheuer and Witsch, Cologne 2003, ISBN 978-3-462-03347-2 , p. 59.
  4. ^ Theo Sommer: Hanoi on the advance. Will Cambodia become a world crisis? In: The time of January 12, 1979.
  5. ↑ Peter Stiegnitz: The fifth commandment. A history of violence. An analysis. Edition va bene, Klosterneuburg 2005, ISBN 978-3-851-67175-9 , p. 78.
  6. ↑ Manfred Lahnstein: The Asian Challenge. Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-455-50269-5 .