pol pot program? like mao's great leap forward?

Question

Pol pot programs? like Mao's Great Leap Forward?
did pol pot ever establish a program or a policy like Mao's great leap forward?

what was it?
a link to a website would be appreciated.

thanks

Answer 1

As I understand it, Pol Pot's genocidal revolution and Mao's Great Leap forward had:

- similar aims (national unity and independence)
- divergent strategies (in Cambodia, a return to agricultural past; in China, a self-directed industrialization)
- tragically similar consequences (hundreds of thousands dead of starvation and governmetn persecution; millions in Cambodia)

Pol Pot objected to any signs or evidence of non-Cambodian influence, and especially of bourgeois or elite status. He collectivized property and al but emptied the cities to enforce a rural, agricultural lifestyle. This shared with Maoism the agricultural adaptation of the Marxist-Leninist program.

However, in China by the 1950s, Mao and Chou En-lai were acutely aware of China's need to compete economically. The Great Leap, therefore, collectivized Chinese into agricultural-industrial communes. China was supposed to produce more steel than England - without blast furnaces, etc.

Okay, maybe I'm making too much of the difference, but Pol Pot's "movement" seems more intent on cruelty (especially with the emphasis on killing all those who didn't fit in) than Mao's, which, however cynical and disastrous, did NOT kill 1/4 of the country, and relied more on group-think and nationalist sentiment than on force (and rather than mass murder adn terror) to keep the people in line.

Answer 2

Pol Pot become never like Chairman Mao. Pol Pot, blamed for the slaughter of two million Cambodians, has left an devastating mark on Cambodia, a usa which maintains to be in a state of political unrest. The Khmer Rouge and their infamous chief, Pol Pot, had taken skill. "year 0" had began. money, inner maximum aspects, training and faith have been abolished and Cambodia's cities and cities have been emptied via fact the inhabitants become compelled into enormous, unworkable agricultural collectives. This become the era of the Killing Fields wherein greater beneficial than a million human beings could lose their lives.

Answer 3

Great question - wish I knew.

Saw the King of Scotland film yestrday & it actually offers much in explaining why he did it.

But I'd still love to read Pol Pot's version of Mein Kampf - if it is short and makes any sense - I would not agree with him but might understand his motives & aspirations better.

Answer 4

Try here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pol_Pot

Good luck.