The Cambodian Killing Fields..

[R_P_A_S]

I was doing some research about the Cambodian Killing Fields. I was shocked to learn that the group responsible for this was a communist one. that one of Khmer Rouge?

What was all this about? and how does this look for communism and for what some of you have told me it means and it stands for.

[R_P_A_S]

im going to up this.. thanks!

[RedGeorge]

The Khmer Rouge may have claimed to be communists, but in reality they were just insane. To look deeper into this, I'd check out here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khmer_Rouge) and here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pol_Pot) and here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Killing_Fields)

[RedGeorge]

Another interesting page: here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Kampuchea)

It seems that the Khmer Rouge wanted to go immediately to communism without the steps inbetween (unlike Russia, China etc.). In the end, this plan caused the deaths of some 1.7 million people (roughly) through execution, starvation and illness.

[The Grey Blur]

As an example of how the Khmer Rouge were anything but communist - they would shoot anyone who wore glasses

:blink:

Pol Pot Pol Pot Pol Pot...Polpotpolpotpolpotpolpot

[Janus]

The Khmer Rouge were not communists. The agrarian utopia they set out to create turned into nothing more than a nightmarish world in which killings and beatings were the norm.


It seems that the Khmer Rouge wanted to go immediately to communism without the steps inbetween (unlike Russia, China etc.).
China tried something similar in the Great Leap Forward but that failed. Zhou Enlai later warned the Khmer Rouge not to follow this path but obviously, they paid no heed and went even further.


they would shoot anyone who wore glasses
Or had soft hands or spoke a foreign language. This xenophobia and anti-intellectualism characterized much of their rule.

[CCCPneubauten]

Originally posted by Permanent [email protected] 4 2006, 04:25 PM
As an example of how the Khmer Rouge were anything but communist - they would shoot anyone who wore glasses

:blink:

Pol Pot Pol Pot Pol Pot...Polpotpolpotpolpotpolpot
That didn't take long until a Pol Pot Jello Biafra chat started.

Good song.

Any way.

How do you counter people who say they are Communist, I mean, people are quite set in their ways.

[Janus]

How do you counter people who say they are Communist
Well, for starters, people would have to know what communism actually is. Look at the stigma that has developed towards communism due to the actions of Stalin, Mao, and Pol Pot and you will see one major obstacle to our movement.

[R_P_A_S]

well i really didn't think that they could possible by communist. the way they are descrived was insane! But the articles that call them Communist, they dont bother in telling you that their version or idea of communist was not really that.

[Janus]

That's because the actual name of the Khmer Rouge was the Communist Party of Kampuchea. Khmer Rouge was just a name coined by Sihanouk that was later adopted in English. It means Red Khmer.

[The Grey Blur]

Originally posted by [email protected] 4 2006, 07:32 PM
But the articles that call them Communist, they dont bother in telling you that their version or idea of communist was not really that.
Yeah, me and some comrades in my school are campaigning that they add a second, correct definition for Communism in our History text books

[BobKKKindle$]

In many Ways, they were as uncommunist as you can get in these sense that they turned traditional Marxism Leninism on its head - instead of having the proletariat as the revolutionary class that acts as the engine of history, they glorified the role of the peasantry.