do you support pol-pot?

[new democracy]

i noticed that people here support dictators like stalin, mao, castro, so ihave to know, does anyone here support pol-pot? does anyone here support the dictator that killed 2 million people and drove all of his people to the village? does anyone here is that crazy!?

[Hayduke]

I dont support mass killers, unlike hard headed stalinist's

[Valkyrie]

I support that Pol Pot should remain dead.

[Conghaileach]

Was Pol Pot even a leftist? From what I heard, he roped a number of commies into joining his army, and then all of a sudden he was being called a commie himself.

[Moskitto]

Nope, I hate Pol Pot, I recently ranked him as most evil person of all time. (I decided that someone who declares he was right all the time is far more evil than someone who commits suicide.)

Pol Pot had 1 left wing policy and that was total collectivization. However

He basically ran the place like a factory owner (he used quotas, if you couldn't fill the quotas you leave (by the bayonette))

He believed in the Khmer master race and killed All non-Khmers, not internationalism.

He decided, not that all children should have an education, but that all children who had an education should be clubbed to death, excluding himself of course.

And the USSR and Vietnam both hated him.

[Michael De Panama]

I'll bet it's no surprise where I stand on this.

[Mazdak]

I disagree with his racism and his belief in khmer supremacy over anyone Vietnamese. He purged for racist reasons, unlike Stalin, who did for political reasons.

[munkey soup]

Anyone who purges and kills for any reason, including political, is, in my humble opinion, a ****.

There must be room for dissent and new ideas in any political system. This is why dictators are, for lack of a better word, wrong.

While I support Castro and his revolution and I don't believe Cuba is as bad as the U.S. media would have you believe, I do believe he should of held free elections long ago.

[guerrillaradio]

Quote: from Mazdak on 2:32 am on Aug. 27, 2002
He purged for racist reasons, unlike Stalin, who did for political reasons.

The 1952 Jewish purge mean anything to you??

[suffianr]

Pol pot was another person who used Leftist ideology as a cover for genocide...Fucking ****s like him deserve to be shot for distorting the truth behind our cause, and always makes for bad impressions to other people, this is why those goddamned capitalists always point their dirty little fingers at us.

[Mazdak]

1952- the incident involving the doctors? They, as far as i know, were not killed because stalin died first.

[Maaja]

The question about supprting Pol-Poth is very weird. Who could supprt it? He was not a communist, far of that... I definitely do hate his kind of assasins who only do smear the reputation of communism. I saw a documental movie about his victims and their children now hated the communist ideology, without thinking that Pol-Poth and his regime were not communist.

[Cassius Clay]

I'm not sure how anyone could support Pol Pot, he carried out the second (to my knowledge) worst genocide in history. The man had nothing to do with communism and in the end the people were liberated by the NVA.

Well actually some did support Pol Pot notably Deng ( who ofcourse invaded Vietnam afterwards for his own imperialist reasons) and the USA who put sactions on Vietnam for the next 10 years.

[Lefty]

he deserves to be beaten, preyed upon by vultures, starved, pierced in every place on his body, have objects of all sizes rammed up his anus, then set afire. Then crucified, then starved again.

[Pinko]

Pol Pot had a fantastic dream of a great Utopia bereft of suffering. Unfortunately, he went a bit loopy and decided that killing 90% of the population was the best way to achieve this.
So I support his goal, but not his method.

(Edited by Pinko at 3:11 am on Aug. 30, 2002)

[maoist3]

Pol Pot called us Maoists "counterrevolutionary."
I realize it's tough to straighten that all out with the intense propaganda though. You'll have to wade through a lot of shit to figure it out.

Those of you who have ever said anything good about Republicans or Democrats (USA) have more to do with him than we do. They gave him military aid as caught on videotape by 60 Minutes.

http://www.etext.org/Politics/MIM/faq/polpot.html

[Moskitto]

Pol Pots Genocide was not the second worst in history, it is the second most publicised though.

The worst Genocide happened long before the 20th Century in China, Invading Mongol armies massecred 35 million Chinese Peasants. After that you've got the Holocaust where 13 million died, after that you've got the Cambodian Genocide and the Armenian Genocide which had similar numbers of victims, unless you call the Ukrainian Famine or the Belgian Congo a Genocide in which case they're probably about the same level as the holocaust.

[Mazdak]

35 million, i think it was 20 million but the difference is the Mongols were a "barbarian" people while the Khmer Rouge is a group that only stopped activities recently(or might not have stopped at all i think).

[Moskitto]

nope it was 35 million

Source: Guiness Book of Records.
Source: Colin McEvedy, Atlas of World Population History (1978)

Even Rummel Estimates 30 Million and he's well known for downplaying death in non-20th Century events and non-totalitarian Regimes.

[ovrproofmentalz]

i can't see why he would destroy the educational system and kill the intellectuals... reform the system, do not destroy it... his acts set back cambodia generations in terms of development of educatiom, health and general infastructure... he was a dellusioned mass murderer with an army to carry out nationwide slaughter

[Conghaileach]

He killed the intellectuals so that there could be no-one to stand up to him. Most (of not all) leftist leaders in history have been well educated. Marx, Engels, Wolfe Tone, Lenin, Trotksy, Luxembourg, Mao, Stalin, Ho Chi Minh, Castro.

An eduation can be the most dangerous thing in the world.

[Moskitto]

Pol Pot should have killed himself, like many of the people he killed, he could read.

[RedRevolutionary87]

Quote: from Mazdak on 10:33 am on Aug. 27, 2002
1952- the incident involving the doctors? They, as far as i know, were not killed because stalin died first.


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