The fuck was his problem, seriously. Few leaders in modern history

He had the right idea. Everyone was much happier as farmers, fuck cities.

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>>2583526

The crazy thing about Pol Pot is nobody even knew who he was till like 2-3 years after he had already taken power.

The Khmer Rouge were insanely secretive and kept even their leaders classified. Before that they were simply "The Organization" which you followed or got shot.

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>>2583526
glasses

>>2583558
lol

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>>2583558
>believing tankie nonsense
m8 even i'm from /leftypol/ and that's just stupid

>>2583592
Just as stupid as Hilter dindunuffin wrong

Unfortunately the far-leftists who claim that Mao/Stalin/Pol Pot/etc. are misunderstood have a lot more power in academia than the Muslims and neckbeards who claim Hitler was misunderstood

>>2583608

>Unfortunately the far-leftists who claim that Mao/Stalin/Pol Pot/etc. are misunderstood have a lot more power in academia

People have been parroting this meme for over a century now and it's merit has only decreased since then. You must be either gullible or insane.

>the Muslims . . . who claim Hitler was misunderstood

Oh, yeah. That explains it.

>>2583643
Muslims loved Hitler and Hitler loved Muslims

Funny thing was his regime was backed by the USA.

>>2583652
lies

>>2583643
>>2583643
>People have been parroting this meme for over a century now and it's merit has only decreased since then
What meme? That leftists are overrepresented in academia?

>>2583526
he is to anarcho-primitivism like what Pinochet is to Ancaps

>>2583652
>>2583673
>However, the fact that this regime was toppled in the Cambodian–Vietnamese War by Vietnam, which the United States regarded as a hostile power, led to US condemnation of the Vietnamese invasion. The United States recognized the Coalition Government of Democratic Kampuchea (which included the Khmer Rouge) as the legitimate government of Cambodia.[3] Ben Kiernan claimed that the US offered material support to the Khmer Rouge after the Vietnamese invasion.[4]

>>2583558
This is why I hate /leftypol/

>>2583708
>implying tankies and nazbols aren't the only good part off that board

Stick to the four precepts: do not know, do not hear, do not see, do not speak.

Better to kill an innocent by mistake, than spare an enemy by mistake

We must be like the ox, and have no thought, except for the Party. And have no love, but for the Angkar. People starve, but we must not grow food. We must honor the comrade children, whose minds are not corrupted by the past.

>>2583558
>Kampuchea

JUST GENOCIDE MY POPULATION UP SENPAI

>>2583652
Not really, the truth is more complicated

From 1968 until around 1973 the Khmer Rouge were allies of the USSR, China, and North Vietnam. In 1970 the North Vietnamese invaded Cambodia to try and have supply lines & infrastructure escape US bombing, and they transformed the tiny Khmer Rouge guerrillas into a real army. The US bombed the Khmer Rouge heavily 1970-1972, devastating them and preventing a communist capture of Phenom Penh.

After the US withdrew from the region they continued to back the Lon Nol military regime while Cambodia's ousted King Sihanouk (in exile in China) was more or less friendly to the Khmer Rouge and legitimized them with his endorsements.

After the US withdrew from the region and Vietnam violated the Paris Peace Accords and re-invaded South Vietnam, they also sent further forces and aid to the Khmer Rouge that allowed them to capture the country. At this time the Khmer Rouge was still comfortably backed by the USSR, China, and North Vietnam and were fighting US-backed enemies.

From 1975-1979 the insanity of the Khmer Rouge began to show and Pol Pot began taking bizarre racially motivated steps against Vietnamese, massacring both Cambodian-Vietnamese and Vietnamese in cross border raids. He also openly sided with China in the Sino-Soviet split. These things caused him to be solely backed by China and become enemies of Vietnam and the USSR. However the US still did not aid him, did not recognize the regime, and a number of US personnel were killed by Pol Pot's regime

In 1979, Vietnam-Cambodian tensions boiled over and the Vietnamese invaded and overthrew Pol Pot, replacing it with a far-less brutal but still authoritarian communist proxy state. The Chinese invaded Vietnam in retaliation and the Khmer Rouge continued to fight the Vietnamese, aided by China and now Thailand (who previously fought Pol Pot but was now worried of Vietnamese expansionism)

part 2 incoming

>>2583817
The US backed China when it invaded Vietnam as a way to fuck over the USSR and "payback" for the Vietnam War. At this time, with the Cambodian genocide over and Pol Pot ousted, you can now claim the US began to subtlety help the remnants of the Khmer Rouge. This "aid" however did not manifest materially. Rather, the US used its veto power to prevent Vietnam's new Cambodian regime from gaining a seat on the UN. Instead, the UN seat went to King Sihanouk's government in exile, which after the Vietnamese invasion entered in a coalition government with the Khmer Rouge. The US also continued to aid Thailand, who aided the Khmer Rouge out of fear over Vietnam. Throughout all this however, China was still its sponsor.

The "US backed Khmer Rouge" is a meme created by Noam Chomsky to bash the US some more, which is ironic because Chomsky himself actually did openly support the Khmer Rouge (maybe it's a form of deflection?)

>>2583820
I thought that the US provided weapons for the Khmer Rouge, wouldn't that qualify as material aid?
A lot of people bashed the american government for interfering and helping a tyrannous communist party which existed well after the Cambodian-Viatnamese war.

>>2583870
US didn't provide weapons to the Khmer Rouge, except maybe indirectly via Thailand during the 1979-1991 period when they weren't even in power anymore.

The Khmer Rouge used a lot of American weapons because they had been captured from the Lon Nol regime.

>>2583767
What exactly do you dislike about it?

>>2583945
anarkiddies, leftcoms, crypto-liberals