Let's be honest, the Khmer Rouge did nothing wrong

Let's be honest, the Khmer Rouge did nothing wrong.

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right and wrong are spooks.

What the khmer rouge did wrong was not be democratic enough in the exercise of power and did not criticize themselves enough.

any power structure needs to be able to produce and implement self-criticism, or you will get things happening like the great leap forward. Many cases of bad governance happen in private for-profit corporations. I cite the GLF just because it is the most famous example. But imagine if the leadership of sears/radioshack/kmart had been in charge. I hate the argument that capitalism is incapable of incompetence. Operation Market Garden anyone? Western de-industrialization etc.

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no, i'm pretty sure what the Khmer Rouge did wrong was act like genocidal reactionaries with a pathological fear of anyone wearing glasses.
just a theory.

Chomsky pls

go away retard

Fucking spooky fam

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They literally wanted to reverse modernity and return Cambodia to a wholesome agrarian society. They were practically "Dark Enlightenment", faggot

yfw the Vegan Anarchist is just a Pol Potist.

t. Noam Chomsky

Found the pedos.

Never change guys.

Seriously though Pol Pot is the only revolutionary who understood Marx aside from Hoxha. Too bad Posadas had never lead a revolution though, because he's basically Pol Pot + Hoxha with ayylmaos and dolphins.

They didn't kill people for wearing glasses. Khmer Rouge were shit, but not for the reasons most claim. It's kind of insane how many blatant lies have been spread surrounding them.


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For fuck's sake m8, it's in the fucking post you responded to

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There is such a thing as morality, like right and wrong. Capitalism is considered evil on this board, so should genocide and murder.

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This is untrue for any revolutionary government, but the Khmer Rogue were certainly better than the Soviet-ass kissing Vietnamese revisionists. The rural agrarian measures of Pol Pot's government is so demonized because it correctly and effectively uprooted the urban parasitic bourgeoisie and cancerous intellectualism that was destroying Cambodia at the time. History will absolve him when our struggle reaches victory.


It is if it brings revolutionary progress, just like everything else. Even Trotsky understood this and wrote on it. Fuck off with your delusional liberal moralism.


The Khmer Rogue were far from "shit", but I agree with your sentiments. It's laughable how the left will (correctly) deny the hoards of bourgeois fabricated lies about Lenin, Che, and others but swallow every single inch of absurd slander against Pol Pot that the bourgeois media and academia pull out of their ass. Even when an anti-Leninist academic like Noam Chomsky calls them on their bullshit, he becomes ostracized by the left, for his heresy against the bourgeoisie's narrative.

I don't see anything about industrialization here

Fuck you.

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Fuck off, the Khmer Rouge were the ones spreading their asscheeks for China and the US. The PRK faced near isolation, but still managed to rebuild the country and undo the shit the Khmer Rouge did.

Holy fuck at least try to photoshop it properly

This. Fuck any "leftist" that sides with imperialism just because the aggressor calls himself "communist".

Spooky.

So basically the Khmer Rouge siding with Chinese and American imperialists?

Pol Pot was an angsty manchild with a painfully bourgeois history. I doubt he had any real ideals or even a sense of despotic selfishness. He simply murdered people en masse because he lacked the emotional maturity to cope with life without harming others like a real life Victor Zsasz.

The Vietnam communists that invaded his territory were heroes.

The "American support" thing is a total myth. Democratic Kampuchea was an independant socialist nation, something the social imperialist USSR and it's Vietnamese puppets could not tolerate.

They were "independent" because even the Soviets had standards.

Your definition of "imperialism" is like lolbert "aggression"

I'm a mautist too fam and have interest in the kampuchea issue but what is the evidence for that? seriously curious

Read some Marxist sources from the time, before the entire left capitulated to the bourgeois approved narrative. If you belive Pol Pot purposely "genocided" his people, then so did Lenin, Che, Stalin, and Mao. The deaths in Cambodia at the time were virtually all from US imperialist attacks or the Vietnamese invasion.

You cannot label deaths from policy failures "genocide". Might as well call the famines in Ukraine and China state sponsored genocides. It amazes me that a liberal anarchist like Chomsky has more intellectual integrity and guts to challenge the fairy tale like bourgeois narrative.

marxists.org/history/erol/ncm-5/call-pol-pot.htm

marxists.org/history/erol/ca.secondwave/rashi-pol-pot.htm

marxists.org/history/erol/ca.secondwave/alive-k.htm

You mean other than the fact that they were allowed to keep their place at the UN and the fact that they dropped "communist" from their party name, changed their ideology to democratic socialism, and formed an alliance with the monarchy, all to appease the Americans? And you don't deny the Chinese imperialism over them? Pol Pot was good friends with Deng Xiaoping, and the leaders of the Khmer Rouge were all mostly Chinese as well. Not to mention that all came from wealthy backgrounds that allowed them to study abroad, usually in France. They were bourgeois as fuck.

The Khmer Rouge itself dropped the any pretense of being communist after the Vietnamese invasion.
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Their alliance with revisionist China was to prevent their complete destruction by the vehemently hostile Vietnamese. The Khmer Rogue were far from perfect, and made many errors in the name of geopolitical pragmatism just like Lenin, Stalin, and Mao did. Appeasement being one of them. The notion that they were an American plot is fucking laughable. The vast majority of deaths during the Pol Pot's rule were directly from US imperialist bombings.


He obviously never supported him, but he did distill many of the insane bourgeois fabrications about Pol Pot purposely massacring his people and killing half the population.

He actually did… before it was revealed that the Western powers were secretly aiding him.

And the PRK's alliance with the imperialistic USSR was to prevent their complete destruction by the vehemently hostile Khmer Rouge.


I never said they were an American plot, but they were sure quick to jump in bed with the US after they were overthrown in a communist revolution.


Even if that were true, that excuses the deaths at the hands of the Khmer Rouge how? You are aware that they disproportionately went after minorities except for the Chinese, right? They were nothing more than bourgeois ultranationalistic agrarians.

Yeah, I never argued that in fact unlike most I was pretty aware that much most of what they say about the "cambodian genocide" is bullshit.

academia.edu/3390819/The_Khmer_genocide_narrative_in_the_age_of_the_internet
According to this paper more people died after the Vietnamese liberated Kampuchea than before, with arguably most violent deaths coming from Vietnamese mines. Some testimony submitted to US congress even argued more people died from malaria than from the Khmer Rogue.

Vltchek has an interesting article too:
counterpunch.org/2014/08/01/cambodia-and-western-fabrication-of-history/

From what I can tell the Khmer Rogue did not uphold the dictatorship of the proletariat or ML as a science but that might be my own preconceived ideas from old Western maoist/ml polemics. Thanks for these articles, I will be sure to read them.