Not sure if they were trolling but on the old sub I came across an anarchist who said Pol Pot came the closest to liberation lol
It's actually slightly less weird than it sounds because Pol Pot was basically the closest you could get to being an anarcho-stalinist. Dude tried to read Marx and he didn't understand it, but then he read Stalin and Kropotkin and was like "this is my jam". I'm not shitting you. Basically what happens when you give theory to a dumb psycho.
My favorite inept Pol Pot Moment was when he misread a Marx passage on money and decided to dissolve the national currency, instantly tanking the economy and essentially making all state employees slaves as they no longer received wages for their work. Then the population had to start using rice as a currency like it was fucking 5000 BCE again.
You said pol pot read stalin specifically. But stalin was basically a Leninists, and by extension that would make pol pot a centrist Leninist that thought evolution was from cooperation or something. Seems not true.
Yes, he read Stalin, and Kropotkin. Along with other things (such as Mao, importantly). I'm not sure what you mean by "thought evolution was from cooperation". But, like, Stalin and Kropotkin are pretty disparate things, and I guess these things combined into his mind aided by his brain worms into whatever super weird nonsense he ended up believing.
Not sure if they were trolling but on the old sub I came across an anarchist who said Pol Pot came the closest to liberation lol
It's actually slightly less weird than it sounds because Pol Pot was basically the closest you could get to being an anarcho-stalinist. Dude tried to read Marx and he didn't understand it, but then he read Stalin and Kropotkin and was like "this is my jam". I'm not shitting you. Basically what happens when you give theory to a dumb psycho.
Which is funny because China was backing them to stall USSR expansion into the area.
The US also gave pol pot coverage in the UN and materials through Thailand. In an attempt to stall Soviet aligned Vietnam from expanding.
Yeah. The one time the US was okay with communism was to fuck with other communists lol.
That was why the US secretly supported trots and titoists in the Balkans post WWII.
China's foreign policy has been pretty shit
My favorite inept Pol Pot Moment was when he misread a Marx passage on money and decided to dissolve the national currency, instantly tanking the economy and essentially making all state employees slaves as they no longer received wages for their work. Then the population had to start using rice as a currency like it was fucking 5000 BCE again.
Well, to his credit, he did admit he didn't understand Marx.
Stalin was basically a Marxist-Leninist.
I don't understand what this post has to do with mine?
You said pol pot read stalin specifically. But stalin was basically a Leninists, and by extension that would make pol pot a centrist Leninist that thought evolution was from cooperation or something. Seems not true.
Yes, he read Stalin, and Kropotkin. Along with other things (such as Mao, importantly). I'm not sure what you mean by "thought evolution was from cooperation". But, like, Stalin and Kropotkin are pretty disparate things, and I guess these things combined into his mind aided by his brain worms into whatever super weird nonsense he ended up believing.
Lol, sounds like quite a party.
It was a joke about mutual aid: a factor of evolution.