Who's /polpot/ here?

He's the only man who understood what true revolution takes.

I like girls in glasses so how about no

Idk, according to Neakita YT vids Pol Pot was an agent of Kali and Communism is about global depopulation. So who am I supposed to believe here?

Well if it's on youtube it's gotta be true

FUCK OFF SIONISTas!

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I wouldn't say that I identify as a 'Pol Potist' as the Khmer Rouge itself were highly opportunistic and ideologically incoherent. With that said, I have defended the actions of the Khmer Rouge here many times due to the large amount of misinformation about Democratic Kampuchea. The experience of Democratic Kampuchea ended tragically however there are many important lessons to learn from it.

Interesting point. Are you aware that the Khmer Rouge only gained western support after the end of the Vietnam war when Soviet and U.S imperialists were engineering conflict between Vietnam and Cambodia? Are you aware that Rojava is backed by the U.S and Israel? Perhaps you can post your exploding car image in the next thread advocating a 'free' Kurdistan.

Not your safe space. Fuck off back to /r/socialism

The CIA stuff sounds like nonsense, as if Brother Number 1 was a CIA puppet all along or something. He was only given support for a brief period of time because the US and UK wanted to offset the Vietnamese (of course).

I love the idea of Year Zero because I'm a nihilist who hates everything, and I believe a return to a simple life after the collapse of the massively complex society we live in would be ideal and much more authentic and fulfilling.

How do you feel about DPRK?

I support anti-imperialism and the DPRK's pursuit of self-determination first and foremost however I am deeply troubled by the ongoing revisionism and destruction of Kim Il Sung's legacy. What I find particularly excellent is the ongoing rejection of scientific Marxist-Leninism first by Kim Jong Il and lately by Kim Jong Un in exchange for their Juche ideology which harbors reactionary elements and seems to look like more and more of a bastardised version of Late Soviet Revisionism and perverted Oriental faux-nationalism.

Fucking word filters! Pro6lematic not excellent!

I'm very drawn to the idea of destroying society and going back to year zero.

It's what the people who rejected social democracy deserve.

I mean, his "I didn't know! subordinates lied to me!" excuse could wash.

Kalik
youtube.com/watch?v=Xc4DWL3gQLI

hmmm…

They got butthurt that they were overthrown by communists. It's pretty funny to see people try to defend this.

Burn the books!

Hi Neakita! Now that the Roo and Chomsky are both slowly dying of colon cancer from you curses who will you curse next? Also, why are you so edgy?

he "kill everyone with glasses because they must be a intellectual cosmopolitan reactionary" is a bit of a meme. The Khmer Rouge never formed a functional government, they simply blew up the banks in Phnom Pehn, destroyed all government institutions of the Lon Nol regime, marched about two million starving people out of the cities, made everyone work in collective farms in the country side and declared 'year zero'. Pol Pot and the inner circle of the Khmer Rouge had little supervision over individual lieutenants scattered throughout Democratic Kampuchea which allowed for bizarre forms of enforcement within the collectives and subsequent 'human rights' violations. I recall reading somewhere that ordinary citizens in general had no idea of who was in charge of the communities and that the Khmer Rouge guerillas operated in paranoid secrecy, like they had been during the Vietnam War. It wouldn't surprise me if a unsupervised 14 year old peasant guerilla tasked with rooting out reactionaries and spies shot a few people with glasses however I would argue that it would be a somewhat isolated incident and would have nothing to do with the official doctrine of the Khmer Rouge.

ixabert.4t.com/polpot.html

are there any places online i can talk with more pol potists?

POL POT DID NOTHING WRONG

To be honest I haven't found anywhere else beside here. The Maoist International Movement appeared to support Pol Pot briefly but as they fractured into Monkey Smashes Heaven and finially into Leading Light Communist Organization they appear to have taken a more ideological purist form of Lin Biaosim/Maoism Third Worldism and view the Khmer Rouge as oppurtunists.

What actions do you think the Khmer Rouge are worth justifying? Also, what do you think of the idea of "year zero" and do you think it was a good idea just executed horribly or was it doomed to fail from the start?

I'm still a babby when it comes to all this stuff, so keep that in mind

Joke: Hitler did nothing wrong
Broke: Stalin did nothing wrong
Woke: Pol Pot did nothing wrong

Give me a quick rundown on them
reddit.com/r/Kampuchea

I don't know if it makes me some kind of edgelord but these days I think the Viet Cong were pretty dank

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The Maoist International Movement were primarily a theory based group from the U.S who published Third Worldist Articles in a small news paper and engaged in Prison Activism. Unfortunately they were strong advocates of idpol and could probably be seem as somewhat of an ideological precursor to the "all sex is rape", "cis-male muh privilege" bourgeoisie turbo feminists we see today. With that said they did offer an interesting point of view and I found their movie reviews entertaining. They shut down in 2008 but you can view some of their works here: prisoncensorship.info/archive/etext/

On another note I'm surprised to see a reddit group based on Democratic Kampuchean ideology. I'm not a redditor by any mean but I'm tempted to check it out.

Nah, the Viet Cong were based as fuck. The Khmer Rouge were absolute shit, though.

Regarding the high death count during the height of the Khmer Rouge Regime 1975-1979 it should be noted that approximately 10% of the Kampuchean population died as a result of U.S war efforts during the Vietnam War which ended in 1975. The number is approximately 600, 000 according to a Finnish inquiry. As a result of this approximately 2 million Kampucheans became refugees and fled the fertile eastern side of the country which the nation primarily relied on for agricultural goods. During this process the U.S installed Lon Nol Regime was given an ample amount of food aid and other aid from the U.S and it's allies which resulted in a massive migration and rapid urbanization in the major cities. When the Lon Nol Regime was overthrown in 1975 by the Khmer Rouge U.S backed aid immediately ceased.

As you can imagine this caused massive problems including a famine which was artificially compounded by the rapid migration to cities and general loss and destruction of agricultural production. It should also be noted that the Khmer Rouge had an uneasy relationship with the North Vietnamese and Vietcong due to historical rivalries dating back centuries, the land grabs made by the Vietnamese during the war and the ongoing attempts by the Vietnamese to subvert the Khmer Rouge into a revisionist pro-Soviet movement. This effectively meant that Kampuchea was surrounded by hostile nations with only little support from the People's Republic of China which was constrained by geographical circumstances.

The 'Year Zero' policy was a sound and necessary policy aimed at resurrecting the Kampuchean agricultural sector and prevent the mass starvation of the entire population. Due to the economy being totally obliterated due to the power vacuum and famine the Khmer Rouge choose to force migration from urban areas and establish collective agrarian communities as a means to feed the population and restarting the society as a whole.

In regards to the excesses and violence during the Khmer Rouge Regime from 1975-1979 it should be noted that Pol Pot never formed a functional government and due to the constant threats of aggression by the U.S and Soviet backed Vietnamese he choose for the Nation to be arbitrated by a highly secretive covert volunteer guerilla army made up predominately of peasants and tribal people. This caused many issues in regards to command oversight and effective communication between the semi-autonomous rank and file and Khmer Rouge inner circle.

I am of the belief that any regime under these circumstances would of been doomed to fail and that what the Khmer Rouge did was act of desperation and unwavering commitment to the peoples of Kampuchea. The blood of the Kampuchean people is primarily on U.S, Soviet and Vietnamese hands. With that said I am highly critical of the actions of the Khmer Rouge after their subsequent downfall and exile into obscurity as they eventually became U.S backed bandits and abandoned the principals of agrarian Communism.

This video changed my views on Pol Pot 180 degrees. Goes to show that the propaganda against him is just as false as the propaganda against Stalin and Mao.

youtube.com/watch?v=PKHGxu7vd-g

Get out Vietjew reeeeeeeeeee

And how is this a bad thing?

Not to mention, what was Pol Pot doing at this time? Oh yeah, he was being a bourgeois fuck studying abroad at a private school in France rather than helping the movement at home, just like almost every other future leader of the Khmer Rouge.

Great revolutionary movement of bourgeois French college students you've got there, m8. Ironic that they used their positions in wealthy families to study at a private schools abroad and then when in power they would dismantle the education system in Kampuchea.

NAZPRIM

Thank you, that was an intriguing series of interviews which was well worth watching!

Regarding the notion of the 'Indochinese Communist Party', this was viewed as highly historically insensitive and a threat to Cambodia's sovereignty due to it being seen as a Vietnamese bid to control greater Indo-China which had previously been subjugated by the French. There are Centuries of rivalry between the Khmer and Vietnamese Empires predating the French Conquest of Indochina.

In regard to your second point about the class composition of the leadership of the Khmer Rouge, I have an old joke for you;

from the muh privileged Mandarin class."

With that in mind during the Khmer Rouge period of 1975-1979 socialism was obtained through the vast collectivization of agriculture where as in the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, socialism was never obtained due to it being a state-capitalist Soviet backed client state.

Year Zero/10 - Keep up the good work!

The Vietnamese weren't the ones who decided to found the Indochinese Communist Party, the Comintern urged them to. Not to mention that the party's main objective was stated to be the overthrow of French imperialism and Vietnamese feudalism. I honestly see no issue with the proletariat of three nations with a common history working together in struggle against imperialist aggressors.

The difference is that Pol Pot didn't betray his class, he betrayed his entire people and the communist movement as a whole.

Socialism doesn't mean committing genocide on your own people to please your western backers.

good meme, but it reminds me to much of the kekistan flag

dude Khmer Rouge and Rojava are both imperial stooges, neither deserve an ounce of support

but yes, fighting propagandized thought is good.