I've seen self described Maoists just be pro-Khmer Rouge and you could tie this with the fetishization of violence in the movement because it's often not a critical support either that takes into account their awful situation but just saying the genocide was deserved and shit (often playing into anti-communist exaggerations of the already horrible events too). Western Maoists are a different breed tho than the CPI (Maoist) so I'm not sure about the latter's thoughts on the matter or any of the other third world Maoist parties.
Some Hoxhaist anti-revisionists that don't take the whole Maoist line also cite Hoxha's "Can the Chinese revolution be considered a proletariat revolution?" to discount the project as communist/marxist and paint it as revisionist from the beginning, laying this to blame for their tactical moves with the US
I've seen self described Maoists just be pro-Khmer Rouge and you could tie this with the fetishization of violence in the movement because it's often not a critical support either that takes into account their awful situation but just saying the genocide was deserved and shit (often playing into anti-communist exaggerations of the already horrible events too). Western Maoists are a different breed tho than the CPI (Maoist) so I'm not sure about the latter's thoughts on the matter or any of the other third world Maoist parties.
Some Hoxhaist anti-revisionists that don't take the whole Maoist line also cite Hoxha's "Can the Chinese revolution be considered a proletariat revolution?" to discount the project as communist/marxist and paint it as revisionist from the beginning, laying this to blame for their tactical moves with the US