What was Pol Pot's problem? Dude was a dick for what seemed

No, it was just Frantz Fanon's theory taken to it's logical conclusion. Frantz Fanon wanted to destroy capitalism to bring about a Marxist utopia and the liberation of the oppressed in the former colonies, and Pol Pot turned this into destroying the whole of society to free people from capitalist oppression, and starting all over. That's why his take over was called Year Zero, he wanted to restart the whole of society

>>1884371
What's the Fanon connection?

Part of the reason might have been a scorched earth policy. As a warlord from the boonies surrounded by threats on all sides he had little need of Phnom Penh, his mentality was to withdraw to the rural interior and prepare for invasion.

He was forced into doing it after Nixon and Kissinger basically invaded his country

His problem was too many people so he did the only logical thing.

>>1884394

He was the main inspiration behind third world freedom movements.

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>>1884361
It was absolutely not arbitrary. Pol Pot believed that the peasant farmers from rural Cambodia (or what he called the "old people") were perfect communists, and wanted to turn everyone in the country into them. When the "new people" objected to being moved to the countryside and used for forced/slave labor, they were executed. Many others didn't fare well since they had absolutely no agricultural knowledge, which, combined with good ol communist over-reporting crop surpluses, lead to massive starvation. The rest were victims of the higher-ups paranoia. Pol Pot strongly believed international forces (CIA, KGB, etc) were trying to thwart his grand communist society, so they set up secret prisons to "prove" this (though in reality anyone brought to one of these was horrifically tortured until they admitted they were CIA, then executed in a pit with a hammer).
All these things combined managed to kill a quarter of Cambodians. One in every four people died.

>>1884361
his problem was intellectuals who read books with glasses

>>1884484
Almost forgot, Pol Pot also believed Western medicine to be a corrupting influence, so eliminated it completely in favor of Eastern folk remedies. This greatly exasperated the mortality rates of those forced to work in the fields (ie, everyone but Khmer Rouge cadres).
So no medical treatments, massive food shortages due to forcing city-dwellers to become farmers, and executions of anyone accused of basically anything

>What was Pol Pot's problem?
What was Vladimir Iljits's problem?
All the commie leaders are (and were) carved from the same wood, with no noticable differences. Even their class backgrounds (Lenin and Mao were 'kulaks' by commie definition) seem to matter very little. Opportunists with no moral codes holding them back: everyone and everything is expendable in the path to achieve more personal power.

>>1884371
That's not what he said at all.

Well, he was a communist.