Khmer Rouge Quotes
Be committed to … smashing feudalists, conservatives, and imperialists who are "reactionaries".
The word “smashing” is a literal translation from the Khmer language. It is not used in the metaphorical sense as we are used to. To save money, arms, bullets and resources the Khmer Rouge method of execution was to “smash” the victim’s head in with a shovel or other implement. This slogan told people literally to murder their political enemies in this brutal way.
Cambodian Khmer Rouge Slogan, 1970s
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This was a great victory for the Victor Berger wing of the party. They purged the violence advocates and communists from the party. Despite this, a few right wingers call any socialist a communist and a revolutionary.
In 1927 there was a Peasant Uprising in the Hunan Province of China. Young Mau went there and wrote a report. Mao and other young communist leaders had a much more acute appreciation of sloganeering than their older revolutionary comrades. Even into the 3rd millennium, the same “Down with Imperialism” slogan could be heard in many part of the world, long after the Soviet Union collapsed and China and become capitalistic.
There were massive strikes in Italy. These strikes began in the engineering factories and soon spread to railways, road transport, and other industries. The strikers, however, did more than just occupy their workplaces, they seized them for themselves. Soon 500,000 strikers were at work, producing for themselves. See {616351} for a description. The question was what next. Malatesta and others recommended that they go on and take over the government and not just try and have better labor conditions and factory operations. He warned that the capitalists and middle class bourgeoisie had been so frightened by the successful national strike that they would even ally with the Fascists who they did not like either. That is how Mussolini and his Fascists came to power.
Under his and Pol Pot’s command, the Khmer Rouge exterminated nearly 2 million Cambodians. He was the number two often referred to as “Brother Number two.” In a 1998 corrupt bargain, the government agreed never to prosecute him for genocide or any of his crimes.
Mengustu seized power in a coup. However his Marxist Dictatorship was very unpopular and a civil war soon started. The poorly armed opposition used guerrilla warfare insurgency techniques. Since the government was hated by most people there was much support for the guerrilla in the villages and countryside. Mengustu adopted a policy of genocide. The areas of the country which were sympathetic to the revolutionaries were then systematically starved by the government withholding food and attacked by allies who he armed.
Vladimir Lenin
The Khmer Rouge (/kəˌmɛər ˈruːʒ/, French: [kmɛʁ ʁuʒ]; Khmer: ខ្មែរក្រហម, Khmêkrâhâm [kʰmae krɑˈhɑːm]; "Red Khmers") is the name that was popularly given to members of the Communist Party of Kampuchea (CPK) and by extension to the regime through which the CPK ruled Cambodia between 1975 and 1979. The name was coined in the 1960s by Norodom Sihanouk to describe his country's heterogeneous, communist-led dissidents, with whom he allied after his 1970 overthrow.
