A Marxist Defense of Pol-Pot’s Killing Fields – Unknown, 2026

Republished from the Maoist Thought Cooperative

“Firmly grasping this victory, cooperative members across the country strive to carry out shock assaults with even
greater strength. They aim to eliminate aggressive, expansionist, territory-seizing enemies and to root out hidden
internal enemies, including agents of foreign powers, while also increasing agricultural production such as rice
and other crops. At the same time, they work to develop their political, ideological, organizational, cultural, and
technical capacities, strengthening their overall effectiveness in serving the cooperatives. The future of the co-
operatives is increasingly bright, advancing step by step along the path of socialist revolution under the Communist
Party of Kampuchea. The future of the people—and of future generations—becomes more promising with each
passing day.” – The Khmer Rouge, Another Step in Our Cooperatives’ Victories, 1978. This was the promise
of the revolutionary cause of Democratic Kampuchea, as the adherents to Marxism-Leninism Potism we should
strive strive to implement guiding light like this as thoroughly as possible in our role in aiding the broader
worker’s movement. The people’s land that felt blood drip from the wounds of the bourgeoisie shouldn’t be
dismissed as excess, for they were not excess they were complimentary, for that was a people’s war and
like any people’s war our role must shift depending upon our circumstances, & when the national govern
-ment had been occupied, its’ people thereunder debased by centuries of French colonial occupation, this
wasn’t a phase of history that could be solved with niceties alone, no as Marxists we are militantly minded,
brother number one shared this tendency as did the cadres of the period, and they waged it as no Marxist
movement had before, the over-arching sway of Angkar tempered regional will thereunder regional will or
the local communes participated in a Maoist esque mass campaign of mutual understanding, on every level,
with mere years an egalitarianism like no other had been achieved for the cooperatives.

This was done on the back of yes the proletarian, yes the peasant, but also the capitalist, capitalism once held
total sway of the Kampuchean mind, so much so that no toil could reflect the mandate placed upon them by the
occupying elite, this mandate disgusted the causes of Kampuchean liberation, with their sympathetically pleading
Western lap-dog kings and their local chiefdom managers of yesteryear, which were stand ins not for the Kamp
-uchean struggle of self will or mass development. The Kampuchean people were essentially subjects to the dictate
of internationally minded Kings, a people’s development can never rise in such a condition, it can reflect certain
strains but a holistic perspective cannot be formed by the mass as the mass from the moment of their birth has
consistently found the noose of capital bound upon them only to debase them in how it prostrates the national will.
For Kampuchean Marxists the goal and the means were the same, they knew that the essential struggle against
the ruling class, aswell as the ruling mind has to come through struggle, & inasmuch as that struggle rose in it’s
hardships, as all struggle’s do, the message aswell as the practice was clear ie we as the representatives of the
people will not allow this parasitism any longer, the only problem that ever should have been found in it was the
excesses against the laboring class, some policies were implemented recklessly & without either social sway or
collective understanding, a tragedy to be sure but the tragedy is found within our own, did the American bombers
who simply wanted to offload their excess stock pity the Kampuchean people? I plead for reply, the Kampuchean
struggle found imperialist violence it didn’t create the violence, nor did do they do it in such a fashion that was not
a credit to our struggle as workers, the ranks of Marxists can gaze proud upon the legacy of our brother in struggle
Pol-Pot; his cause had a character unlike any other and the elitist figureheads of perpetual loathing subjection
reacted with a unique level of hatred and scorn that should only be reserved for the lowest amongst us.

A pedophile like our President being a shining example of the brilliance of capital, & yet duped we remain to
this sway, as did the Kampuchean people in the perennial painful ignorance of their occupiers, as was
the way which was dictated by the prior owners, a class who’d spend far more of their Saintly fleeting
time in Paris or Nice reading the works of the debased afar rulers before them, this was the old way before
the glorious liberation of April 17th by true heirs of Marxist struggle the Khmer Rouge, as time progressed
& things became more institutional and mass their needed to come a time when the excess element was
brought into the fold, yet because of the imperialist propaganda of centuries and the lies of outside mani-
pulators the people were often hesitant, hesitancy is no crime and should even be welcome but when what
often was was a violent murderous partisanship, this was the culture that’d been ingrained in the opposing
terrorizing element, it wasn’t a culture of civility or mutual understanding it was one of domineering, & if
allowed within Kampuchean society as it was it would remain as it was, nothing could ever happen their
consciousness of dignity would be mute as it often is today, hence America’s favorite son is a pedophile,
a tragedy the excesses were to be sure, but excesses rise and fall but the beauty of the revolution goes
on, it must or we must tolerate the slanderous lie that is the capitalist war on all people’s, though especially
those who dissuade the mass from the chains of the modern dictate & strive to make city living complim
-entary to the people & not to the detriment of the national character, perhaps there was a haste to these
things but that haste was in sincere devotion to the cause of communal liberation hence: “The proud stance
is the stance of wholeheartedly loving to serve one thing, or wholeheartedly loving to apply something.
Each class has its own proud stance. If a person holds a specific class stance, that person also holds
the proud stance of that class.

The imperialists, feudalists, and capitalists are proud of their stance — the stance of the oppressive class.
But for us revolutionaries, we have a different proud stance. Ours is based on the interests of the revolution,
the nation, and our poor people. The Proud Stance of the Imperialists, Feudalists, and Capitalists The imp
-erialists, feudalists, & capitalists are proud of power, rank, money, gold and diamond jewelry, and property.
They are also proud of plundering, oppressing, and killing people to enrich themselves. They take pride
in wearing makeup, powder, and perfume, dressing in flashy clothes, and adorning themselves with gold
and diamond jewelry. This proud stance stems from their savage, fascist, and oppressive nature — from
plundering, exploiting, and killing the people. It arises from the corrupted, rotten, and wild morality buried
deep within them. Moreover, the imperialists, feudalists, and capitalists strive to disseminate, propagandize,
educate, and corrupt our male and female youths by making them attracted to the same kind of pride.
They want our youths to follow them and imitate their lifestyle so that the youths will no longer see the
oppression, plundering, exploitation, and corruption carried out by these classes. When our national and
class anger toward them weakens, we will become less interested in the revolutionary stance. Eventually,
we will become afraid to struggle to overthrow them and their oppressive regime.” – The Khmer Rouge,
Eliminate Wrong Pride & Build the Pride of Being Servants of the People, 1974