The US sponsored a 3rd faction in Cambodia that was set against the Vietmanese propped government, they did not directly support Pol Pot.
Umm no.
First of all, even doubting that said revolution did not lead to improvements, even substantial improvement for the majority is not something that betrays any deeper knowledge of the topic to say the least.
Apart from the inspiration this event gave the international labour movement - that it actually was possible to successfully revolt against the traditional ruling classes, it also made the capitalists in other countries realize that it would be better for them to engage in compromises with the working class to avoid similar things to happen to them. One can reflect over whether it was Hitler or Stalin who saved capitalism.
In any case, ine can assume that without the russian example, the implementation of welfare states would have been more difficult.
In that context it is worth noting that the real assault on many of those welfare states started only after the Eastern Bloc disappeared. This is hardly coincindental.
Your last sentences are just unworthy of any comment, and I regret to say that I find your whole post to be abit too much on the ignorant part. So unfortunately I can only give you a bonus point for emotional content.
Where is this majority that was helped? The 20+ million that died in purges, famines, and gulags? The millions more who were purged or shipped off but didn't die? Can we add the 15 million dead from the Russian civil war? What about Black Army anarchists who were too revolutionary even for the Reds and got 'removed' for their troubles? And what is this labor rights crap? Lenin removed factory based worker committees and put them under the command of single individuals when it became more convenient for him. Than we got the banning of any press that criticized the new Bolshevik regime, whether the critics be bourgeoisie or reds themselves. We haven't even gotten to Stalin yet and we already get revolution via terror, a secret police, deadly work camps, arbitrary murder, slaughter, torture, and oppression.
Striking workers seeking such radical things as rations that didn't result in starvation, the elimination of privileges for Communists, free press and elections were rounded up, arrested, and certain numbers of them made examples of via execution. The families of deserters were rounded up with various members executed until the deserters presented themselves, wherein many of them were executed. Families who in any way aided deserters faced similar risks. Members of the wealthier middle class were publicly hung...not because they resisted or worked against the revolution...but because they were wealthier middle class and Lenin wanted to make an example of them.
Where is this progress? People could not form their own independent labor unions. Hell, even in the Capitalist happy west they were able to manage this. No independent political organization of any kind was tolerated. If you had grievances, they had to go through the state apparatus and we all know the penalties for those who raise a bit too much hell. Life was bad for the peasants, it was bad for the industrial workers, and everyone was under threat of arbitrary abuse and oppression by state forces.
The record of Communism in just about every state it exported to ain't much better. And where do you get this phantom connection between the Russian Revolution and labor movements in the US and the West? Or between the rise of the Soviets and western creation of the Welfare state? I'd love for you to make that case, but you haven't yet. And just saying it doesn't make it so. Hell there are more than enough examples anti-Communist suspicions (some of them not without merit, I did a few studies on them back in college) leading to the exclusion of more progressive labor unions. If anything the Soviet Union ******** the global labor movement because opposition forces only needed to call them dangerous revolutionaries or secret soviet agents to stop them in their tracks.
Saved capitalism? Doesn't even merit a response.
