
03 Jan 2010, 15:52
As all you know, Pol Pot was hated throughout Cambodia, Vietnam, USSR and the rest of the world. His government and army inhumanly caused the death of 26% Cambodian. As far as I know, Pol Pot is anti Soviet, and so was supported by China as well as some Westerner then to fight agains the USSR and Vietnam. He can be considered Communist that he studied and developed his ideology from Mao Zedong (according to what I studied) but building a 2-million barehand-working argriculture social, massly killing intellectual, monks and "unnecessary" people ? How can such a thing ruin communism's image ? Some of the brain-washed capitalist could think "Communism is like that, cruel and heartless, cause mass murder just to build their empires". Please explain to me at which point is Pol Pot's ideology similar to our communism.

03 Jan 2010, 20:46
Pol Pot was not a communist, he was an anti-industrialist and anti-intellectual that wanted to establish a utopian agrarian commune

03 Jan 2010, 21:22
Wasn't he supported by the US?

03 Jan 2010, 21:26
after being evicted by the vietnamese yes, apparently he was the 'legitimate' government.

04 Jan 2010, 14:59
At least I can be proud for being a Vietnamese then, because my country fought against a holocaustic Khmer Rouge inhumanly "supported" by the US and the UK.

04 Jan 2010, 19:35
Ya rly? I wouldn't be a commie if I didn't believe that. But what I meant was that by your earlier logic, we could very well accuse Stalin of not being a Communist. Which would be daft.
And, lol @ Pol Pot. I think I dislike him a little bit more than Mao.

04 Jan 2010, 23:12
No, of course not. I just think he was an idiot.

04 Jan 2010, 23:15
Yeah, that's right. But there have been worse idiots. Kim Jong Il. Ceausescu. Hoxha.

04 Jan 2010, 23:19
Ah, I forgot Kimmy. I've never heard of the other two, where were they from? Laos?

04 Jan 2010, 23:26
Nicolae Ceausescu was the ruler of socialist Romania. He had a huge cult of personality - there were whole books filled with poetry about how awesome he was - and he put handicapped children into huge gulag-like orphanages where they were kept in cages and starved. Also he tried to make his country self-sufficient and flat out refused to take any foreign loans. It was probably the only socialist country that was brought down by its own people because he was such a moron. He was executed by his military.
Enver Hoxha was the leader of socialist Albania. During de-Stalinization, he cut all ties of Albania to the Warsaw Pact and aligned himself with China because, all of a sudden, the USSR had supposedly become "social imperialist". Then, as Mao started to produce more and more bullshit (Three Worlds Theory etc.), he noticed that Maoism was pretty revisionist as well, and cut his ties to China too. So, Albania ended up alone, although it was surrounded by socialist countries, and because he had that same stupid self-sufficiency fetish, everybody ended up being pretty poor. Oh, and he completely banned all religion.