Is there a more misunderstood and slandered regime on this planet? Democratic Kampuchea was a communist state in the sense that it had reached the higher stage of communism as soon as Pol Pot came to power in 1975. In a largely agrarian society, the tiny urban population was corrupted from without and a parasite on the Kampuchean peasant. During a time of war and taking this into account is it really a surprise that the urbanites were evacuated from the cities and forced to work the land along with the old people? Is it really a surprise that these new people, unknowledgable about farming, were treated harsher? Subversive ethnic minorities like the Vietnamese in Kampuchea were targeted for obvious reasons. We must not forget hegemonic designs of the Vietnamese State towards Kampuchea which strove to amalgamate Laos and Kampuchea into a Vietnamese dominated Indochina Federation. The Black Book clearly lays out all of these in advance and yet we Pol Pot-ists are slandered and chased off the board. Who toppled Pol Pot but the Vietnamese aggressors themselves?
On the achievements of DK, know socialist state in history came further. This is a reason for the invective thrown at DK. Lesser, degenerated workers states are of good use for “debunking” socialism in the eyes of the bourgeoisie for their obvious shortcomings. With the DK’s reaching of full communism in such a short amount of time and, might I add, single-handledly by the Kampuchean people, the bourgeoisie and hegemonic regional powers rushed to slander the miracle of Asia. DK abolished religion, dismantled the means of production, finally ended the antithesis between town and country, abolished money and abolished ALL classes and moved into the higher stage of communism.
Pol Pot gets blamed unfairly for many of the consequences of the US bombing campaign, and his death toll is exaggerated like other socialists but he was still an asshole
Alexander Martinez
nah he was actually shit
Benjamin Thomas
Nice argument. It is people like you who compel me to correct the record
Today's left unironically needs more anti-intellectualism.
Justin Green
Even if everything that Leftists have said about Pol Pot is a big CIA myth or some other shit, it's objective truth that he though primitive communism, which is SPECIFICALLY the type of communism Marx and Engels said Leftists SHOULD NOT aspire to, was to be the goal of revolution and revolutionaries
You can disagree with marx and Engels on that point if you want, but that means you aren't a Leftist and neither was Pol Pot
Kayden Bailey
Communism is when you collectivize abandon the means of production.
Jose Hill
You call this "higher stage of communism"? I mean yeah Khmer Rouge is unfairly blamed for a lot of things caused by the Lon Nol regime and the US bombings, but they were still shit. >>>Zig Forums
They just terrorized monks/priests and common folk for a few years until they got destroyed. It was a failed experiment, like so many other instances. You would do well to learn from history.
Is it really a “regression” or form of reaction when you bring society into a nearly primitive communist state? It sounds progressive to me, pic related
There's literally no better way to undermine us than associating with the Khmer Rouge. The Killing Fields were the most horrible crime ever committed in our name, not in numbers but in pure depravity.
Michael Jones
spooked
Joseph Morgan
You believing Vietnamese spooky stories and capitalist lies is more harmful, believe it or not
Lincoln Gomez
PRIMITIVISM IS NOT COMMUNIST
REEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Joshua Sanchez
Why should we trust No Glasses Man over the country that blew Burgerland the fuck out?
Isaac Roberts
It would be a mistake to call Pol Pot a primitivist though. He has, believe it or not, more similarities with the Narodniks from the late nineteenth century than anprims
Jeremiah Flores
Ebin meme. In such an undeveloped country such as Kampuchea, who would have glasses but urbanites?
Daniel Richardson
You don't understand what that term means. A spook is an unexamined, assumed concept that controls you. It shouldn't be a way to dismiss any assessment of anything. It's not an excuse to be a sociopath. Stirner deserves better than you.
Not lies, verified facts.
Dominic Garcia
Wow, not just regular facts, but VERIFIED FACTS™
Humor me, show me this proof of a “Cambodian genocide”. You’ll be hard-pressed in proving it to this thread for the sole reason that it did not happen. Like I said, the bourgeoisie and imperialists have a vested interest in villifying communist societies as an alternative to capitalism. The more successful we have been, the more absurd the villification. Kampuchea was a nation which single-handedly ascended to the upper stage of communism and there is no denying that without, as I can guess you are about to do, tainting my thread with bourgeois gossip and distortions.
