El Khmer Rouge cargándose al 20% de la población del país en cinco años como ejemplo extremo del utopismo izquierdista:
The term “genocide” historically refers to the mass extermination of a race or ethnicity, as with the Turks and the Armenians, or the Germans and the Jews, or the Serbs and the Bosnians. It doesn’t seem to fit what happened in Cambodia, except for the scale of the slaughter.
Rather, what happened in Cambodia is what happened in the French Revolution, and in Stalin’s purges and mass collectivization campaigns, and in Mao’s Great Leap Forward and Cultural Revolution, only on a proportionately larger scale. It was mass murder in the name of equality. It wasn’t “genocide”; it was Communist utopianism carried to its logical extreme. The Khmer Rouge, who called themselves Maoists, believed that the most important social and political value was equality and that in order to create their new, classless society in which everyone was equal, it was necessary to exterminate anyone who might be smarter, or better educated, or wealthier, or more talented than anyone else. Thus, they killed the educated, the bourgeoisie, the middle classes, and the rich; movie stars, pop singers, authors, urban residents, and workers for the former government; and anyone who protested — as well as the families of all the above. Towards the end, they also killed cadres who were thought to be a political threat. Whatever their crimes were, the Khmer Rouge do not seem to have been motivated by racial, ethnic, or religious hatred.
La gloriosa e idealista juventud camboyana de los 70'.
ReplyDeleteEn un descuido llegan al poder votados por la gente y arman un grupo político con jóvenes idealistas, materialistas-prácticos actuales: "La Pol-Pot".
Los venìan haciendo purè masiva e indiscriminadamente desde un poco antes de la llegada de los Khmer, de esta manera facilitaron el antes improbable acceso al poder de estos.
ReplyDeleteFrom October 4, 1965, to August 15, 1973, the United States dropped far more ordnance on Cambodia than was previously believed: 2,756,941 tons' worth, dropped in 230,516 sorties on 113,716 sites. Just over 10 percent of this bombing was indiscriminate, with 3,580 of the sites listed as having "unknown" targets and another 8,238 sites having no target listed at all. . . . [T]he total payload dropped during these years to be nearly five times greater than the generally accepted figure. To put the revised total of 2,756,941 tons into perspective, the Allies dropped just over 2 million tons of bombs during all of World War II, including the bombs that struck Hiroshima and Nagasaki: 15,000 and 20,000 tons, respectively. Cambodia may well be the most heavily bombed country in history. . . . [T]he bombing forced the Vietnamese Communists deeper and deeper into Cambodia, bringing them into greater contact with Khmer Rouge insurgents . . . [and] drove ordinary Cambodians into the arms of the Khmer Rouge, a group that seemed initially to have slim prospects of revolutionary success- (wiki)
Anónimo, estamos hablando de los campos de la muerte. No sé si leíste el artículo.
ReplyDelete"they killed the educated, the bourgeoisie, the middle classes, and the rich; movie stars, pop singers, authors, urban residents, and workers for the former government"
ReplyDeleteBuena descripción de la fauna K...que aprendan la que les espera de tanto acariciar serpientes...
Exacto, es la misma ideología solamente en distinta graduación, aumentando un poquito el vamos por todo se llega a eso.
ReplyDeleteInteresante ver a uno de los ideólogos marxistas del kirchnerato, con sus ideas delirantes del control económico total, y su vida que nada tiene que ver. Aquí:
http://www.perfil.com/contenidos/2012/03/10/noticia_0026.html
El nivel de hipocresía de esta gente es extraordinario.
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