Truth about Pol Pot and Maoism

With the trial of Khmer Rouge officials underway, its important to separate the lies from the truth. Pol Pot was not a Maoist.
http://maoistrebelnews.wordpress.com/2011/07/26/truth-about-pol-pot-and-maoism/
Sources:
(1) Kimmo Kiljunen, ed., Kampuchea: Decade of the Genocide: Report of a Finnish Inquiry Commission (London: Zed Books, 1984), 5.

(2) See for example, G. Hildebrand and G. Porter, Cambodia: Starvation and Revolution. New York: Monthly Review, 1976.
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[jacobvardy]

Weren't the Yanks supporting the Khmere Rouge prior to the Vietnamese attack?

[MaoistRebelNews2]

@jacobvardy Sort of, they wanted to be in good with both sides in case they won. Tried the same thing with Castro.

[juliaisafilmbuff123]

@MaoistRebelNews2 I've heard Alex Jones say that the US was pro-Castro, and thus they *had* to be pro-communist. Totally bogus.

[MaoistRebelNews2]

@juliaisafilmbuff123 God that's stupid. They tried to get in his favor in case he over threw Batista.

[Thomistica]

The Khmer Rouge was Maoist in that it followed Mao's 'unorthodox' example of a Socialist revolution in a country without an industrial proletariat (and thus without 'Capitalism' proper, really) -- a peasant revolution. There were obvious differences between the Chinese and the Cambodian experiences, but this was also Maoist in a sense; it followed Mao's example in combining Marxism-Leninism with the unique Cambodian culture, worldview, etc. -- like Mao, breaking from the 'orthodox' Soviet model.

[MaoistRebelNews2]

@Thomistica Except Pol Pot didn't use any Marxism-Leninism. You can use Maoism without those two as well. All he did was have peasant based revolution. By that logic all peasant revolts against Kings in Europe were Maoist as well.

[fonkymaster]

FINALLY YOU UPLOADED THIS YOU RED SON OF A BITCH!!!

Cant wait to watch! I hope the mutliverse doesn't get wiped out before I am done!

[coffee2bsmelt]

@jacobvardy communism was created and Marx was supported in London by the Fabian society, who also supporting/funding Lenin, the same people who also supported Hitler. Marx himself said that the world world start off with communist countries but become socialist... The world is guided on all political sides by a small group of people

[DarkprinX2500]

an excellent analysis indeed.. i never really accepted the BS tuol sleng hoax

[magomezga]

Capitalists, maoists and nazis and its intransigent struggle against historical science: capitalism didn't profit from child labor, colonialism and slavement; Pol Pot starved and kill the cambodian people... instead he just did the only thing he could do -poor guy, don't judge him- and holocaust never happened. One more delusional guy confusing ideological faith with historicity . When marxism became this nonsense? Count me among you enemies.

[TheNThanhViet]

@MaoistRebelNews2: What do you think about the Vietnam's invasion. It was right or wrong. I think the Vietnamese was right when they attacked and shut down the Khmer Rouge's regime. 'cause Khmer Rouge's soldier had killed so many Vietnamese people in the South West Vietnam and around the Cambodia-Vietnam border. Forgive me if my English was bad :D

[Perseiden2]

are you kidding ?

[REVOLUTIONARYgs]

I agree with most of the things you said in this video except your defense of Pol Pot. Pol Pot didant give a shit about what ideology he was, he only wanted funding and to keep the vietnamese out. In the later years of his rule he even denied that cambodia was ever communist and received funding from the USA. It is a mistake to say he only killed people who didant agree with his regime or the upper class, He killed 1000's of his own citizens for simple reasons and was a fierce racist. good vid

[JHart635]

I don't mean this comment in a nasty way as I'm sure you are a decent enough person.

I have lived in Cambodia for many years. I know many people who lived through the period you describe and I have to tell you that in my opinion you are wrong about just about every aspect of your analysis.

To blame the depopulation of the cities on a famine is ridiculous.

I suggest that when you have the time you visit Phnom Penh. Go to S-21, go to Cheung Ek and speak to the survivors.

Take care.

[Iquickscopeonmw2]

You look like you're coming down from a high.

[RedBannerOfThePeople]

@RogerwilcoFoxtrot NVA were in Cambodia because of the war the US was waging in their own country. That war was because of the illegal division of VN imposed by the US. The US pledged to support free national elections in VN, but then when it learned the people supported the Communists, the US put dictator Ngo Dinh Diem in power in Saigon, and that started the war. The Vietnamese were fighting to unify their country. And they had to be in Cambodia because of the bombing the US was doing in VN.

[doggahuskhusk]

Its sad to know that the American Government supported the Khmer (pronounced kim-mare) regime that killed my family members. I recently went there to visit my relatives, they literally live in an area which was a war zone (mortar shell holes into palm trees). It was sad when my mother(Khmer Rouge Survivor) told me there use to be a jungle where she lived, now all i saw were large open plain fields of emptiness. Also after every rice field was finished, they would slaughter all the workers.