As the title suggests, just a rough list.
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Is the Pol Pot regime a socialist state?
Liberalism slander — viewing Cambodia as “socialist” to achieve dirty goals of anti-communism, anti-Mao, and anti-Cultural Revolution
Revisionists — praising Cambodia’s “socialist” system, blaming the reactionary nature of the Cambodian revisionists entirely on U.S. sabotage, philosophical externalism, using this to justify the fascism of Chinese revisionism
Economy — Serfdom and compradorism
Feudalism
Cooperatives = feudal large estate land ownership, land, livestock, and tools are owned by the feudal state, distributed to farmers within “cooperatives,” and even some living materials are owned by feudal lords, with serfs only having usage rights. This is quite similar to the medieval serfs’ rights to use the lord’s mill.
State = feudal state, enforcing extralegal coercion on farmers, preventing serfs from fleeing, forcing urban populations into feudal estates to become Cambodian revisionist serfs, all “cooperatives” are large or small feudal “imperial estates.”
Abolition of commodities and currency — natural economy is not exclusive to communism. It must be remembered that in slave and feudal societies, social economic systems excluded from commodity circulation also existed. Those shouting that Cambodia is a “communist regime” and “abolished private ownership” forget that capitalist private ownership is not the only form of private ownership, and that land owned by the “state” is not exclusive to socialism — slave societies, feudal societies, and capitalist societies all practiced some form of “state ownership,” but the essence depends on which class controls the state.
Abolishing cities — the foundation of feudal society is small-scale production, centered on small agricultural producers. Cities in feudal society are usually underdeveloped because they are the sites of commodity production, which is limited by the surrounding natural economy, making their markets very small, thus hindering their growth. Moreover, cities are merely ornamental in feudal society; after the fall of the Roman Empire, Western Europe experienced centuries of urban decline and ruins, destroyed by uprisings of slaves, commoners, and foreigners in the late Western Roman period.
Feudal rent — implementing in-kind rent exploitation, farmers pay a portion of their harvest (mainly rice) to the Cambodian revisionists.
Feudal corvée — forced conscription of serfs for various labor services.
Cambodian revisionist compradorism
Becoming a raw material supplier for imperialist exports, returning to colonial times.
Dependent on imperialist aid, economically controlled by imperialism, with almost no industry during Pol Pot’s era due to urban decline and extreme backwardness of productive forces, especially due to imperialist dumping. This is characteristic of a backward colonial agricultural country.
Politics — Joint dictatorship of landlord comprador bourgeoisie
Fascist dictatorship internally
Feudal hierarchy — four-tier system, Cambodian revisionist privileged class, “Olds” (those liberated earlier), ethnic minorities, “Newcomers” (those liberated later)
No rights for the working people, landlords hold dictatorial power over life and death, can arbitrarily beat, scold, or even kill serfs.
Persecution of ethnic minorities, religious believers, and all progressive people, promoting reactionary feudal socialist ideas (verbal socialism, actual feudalism) — unconditional obedience to “Angka”.
Feudal obligations — serfs’ rights such as marriage and childbirth are controlled by their feudal lords, which is the case in Cambodia, only these people are called “cadres.”
Publishing the magazine “Tonle Sap,” secret police rampant, monitoring all anti-Cambodian revisionist speech, banning any publication, association, or assembly.
External surrender and treason
Collusion with U.S. imperialism — (to be supplemented)
Collusion with Chinese revisionism — supported by Hua Guofeng and Deng Xiaoping, Deng even openly defended Cambodia after the capitalist restoration. This sharply contrasts with the cessation of revolutionary aid after China’s 1976 restoration.
Cambodia became China revisionism’s first colony, used in unjust aggressive wars against Vietnam controlled by the Soviet revisionists.
Cambodian revisionist theory
- Promoting abolition of commodities and currency, denying the abolitionist view of bourgeois legal rights, strongly opposing the development of Cambodia’s independent industry, advocating feudal comprador ideas. Cambodia’s view on industrial and agricultural relations is thoroughly comprador bourgeois.
- Promoting chauvinism, opposing proletarian internationalism.
- Philosophically, a refined idealist theism promoting the unity of politics and religion, opposing freedom of belief.
- Metaphysics — viewing private ownership simply as a thing rather than a social relation.
- Promoting “super leap” — essentially a packaged comprador bourgeois idea, exporting grain to imperialism, buying machinery from imperialism.
- Diminishing the historical role of the masses, advocating a one-sided so-called “party leadership,” which is actually promoting fascism of landlord comprador bourgeois dictatorship.
Dog-eat-dog between U.S. imperialism, Soviet revisionist social imperialism, and Cambodian revisionism
U.S. imperialism and the Norodom family
U.S. imperialism and Chinese revisionism
U.S. aggression against Cambodia
Soviet revisionism inciting Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia
External interference by U.S. imperialism and Soviet social imperialism is not the decisive factor plunging Cambodia into chaos.
Socialist China and the Cambodian revisionist regime have nothing in common
Duality of socialist commodity production
Socialist agriculture and collective ownership
Socialist industrialization policy
Proletarian dictatorship and proletarian democratic system in socialist China
National and religious policies of socialist China
Struggling to eliminate the three major differences and achieve communism
Diplomatic relations between China and Cambodia
Socialist China — Cambodia’s democratic revolution is still in the hands of bourgeois democratic factions
Capitalist China — Cambodia has become a Chinese revisionist colony, desperately maintaining its colonial status
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Are they literally abolishing cities???!
Yes. Pol Pot, this landlord with red skin (he himself was a royal relative of the original feudal comprador regime), falsely claimed that the city was a symbol of capitalism, which would corrupt so-called cadres (large and small feudal lords), and wanted to establish a completely rural-based communism or something similar. With the support of domestic feudal comprador forces and international imperialism, Pol Pot’s dictatorship launched the Khmer Rouge genocide, slaughtering and enslaving urban populations, killing more than one-fifth of the country’s population in three years (this is a conservative estimate). I once saw a set of photos on Bilibili, taken several years after his fall. A rural child was squatting on the ground playing, behind him was a large pile of skulls of victims, which was chilling.
Forcibly evacuate large urban populations to the countryside, turning them into serfs of the Khmer Rouge regime.
I previously saw that Pol Pot seemed to have become General Secretary as early as 1963. Why wasn’t his black line identified?
I remember there was a book called “The Savior from a High Place” that was circulated. This book was written by a Westerner, but it roughly revealed the various reactionary policies implemented by the Pol Pot regime and the nature of that regime. When it comes to Pol Pot, this book might also have some utility.
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This book was written collectively by the American and Chinese revolutionaries, but I don’t think its quality is very good, possibly also related to the widespread Anwarite ideology at the time and the revisionist path taken by the American and Chinese revolutionaries. This is also why I once planned to write an article exposing the Pol Pot regime and the Cambodian revisionists. The main problem with this article is that it is very obscure and does not clearly point out the feudal comprador nature of Cambodia. Many actions of the Pol Pot regime that seem “leftist,” such as declaring the abolition of commodities and currency, expelling urban populations to the countryside, and abolishing cities, are not given a reasonable explanation. At most, it points out that the Pol Pot regime was not a socialist regime, but it fails to truly analyze the social formation of Cambodia at that time. What is especially serious is that it says very little about the economic base during the Pol Pot period. Economics is the foundation of all superstructure; if the economy is not understood, then the class nature of the Pol Pot regime cannot be discussed.
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Actually, I think this post is quite good because a lot of information about Cambodian修 (Cambodian renovation) is very chaotic on the Chinese internet, just like what you wrote below. Revisionists, liberals, and various other people all try to achieve their goals by distorting and spreading false information related to Cambodian修.
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@luanma When is the update?
I will write a little when I have free time recently and will share some materials.
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@luanma Comrade Garbled, why haven’t you updated the post yet?
The posts will be updated, but recently I haven’t had much time to write dedicated articles. I might briefly write about some of the materials I’ve been reading later.