me, five minutes later: "Why did I google this?"

Oh Dear

hmmm

u m

I thought because Pol Pot was anti-Soviet, anti-Vietnamese and highly suspicious of China that maybe the Marxist-Leninist-Maoists of the English-speaking internet would be like "ah, here's a murderous dictator we can condemn"

khmer rouge denialism is a new one on me

He studied in Paris, but instead of making money and a career, he returned home, and spent a few years dwelling with forest tribes to learn from the peasants.

that's a weird way to spell việt cộng

Oh no.

y i k e s

~the simple wisdom of the peasants~

the heavily-armed peasants

i'm losing my mind

ah yes, forced relocation never leads to genocide

oh wait:

actually discussion question can you be a true leftist without reading Marx?

the khmer "rogue," huh

are we defining leftist as communist or just.... USA-centric hard left

well, that's the real question, isn't it

i'd say "yes" for leftist, no if you're gonna call yourself a communist

does that then mean revolution is only available for the educated?

also apparently the guy who wrote this counterpunch article is a raging anti-semite, so.

well, that's pretty counter-revolutionary, comrade

goes well with genocide denial though!

do we know how he feels vis-a-vis armenians

anyway really the root of my marx question is that I read kapital and that's several hours of my life I'm never getting back

this is one of those depressing but not necessarily unsurprising questions

yeah, I shouldn't have actually looked, the answer was obvious

I am so sorry for your time loss

I mean I did at least get college credit

"a monkish man of simple needs"

wh.. what

honestly that line sounds like a bad build-up in an erotic fanfiction

chokes

god it's true