Ι wouldn't classify the Khmer Rouge as a cult exactly. Just really fucked up and ass backward. Everyone was basically winging it based on a terrible misunderstanding of pretty much everything and disregard for human life. They mostly had no idea what they were doing and power was actually not extremely centralized like you'd expect from a cult, because of how incompetent the leadership was.
On communism: "We are not communists ... we are revolutionaries" who do not 'belong to the commonly accepted grouping of communist Indochina." (Ieng Sary, 1977, quoted by Vickery, p. 288).
On Marxism-Leninism: "The first public admission that the 'revolutionary organization' was Marxist-Leninist in its orientation came in the memorial services for Mao Zedong held in Phnom Penh on 18 Sept., 1976" (Chandler, in Chandler, ed., p. 55, note 28).:
"They [Kampuchean spokesmen] claim that the CPK is a Marxist-Leninist Party, but say nothing about the writings of these two men." (Chandler, p. 45)
and People's Temple was a total psyop after the 1960s. In fact, I have seen little evidence to show that Jim Jones wasn't himself a patsy in the larger late 1970s push to re-consolidate CIA power. Leo Ryan was notoriously anti-CIA
maybe not quite a cult but the United Red Army were pretty wack.
The United Red Army had 29 members and lost 14 by killing them in less than a year. Most were members of the New Left.
[...]
the group underwent a process known as ‘self-criticism’, a ritual that had become normalized among Left groups in Japan at the time. The original intention of this practice was to allow members of the group to strengthen their alignment with the values and purpose of the cause
However, Mori quickly introduced an element of violence to this process in keeping with the New Left’s demand for individuals to demonstrate their commitment. The purpose of this violence against members was to test their devotion to the cause. Mori argued that beating members into unconsciousness would allow for them to be reborn with true "communistic subjectivity" when they were brought back to consciousness.
[...]
These violent beatings ultimately saw the death of 12 members of the URA who had been deemed not sufficiently revolutionary. Many of the twelve victims died tied to posts in the open, exposed to the elements, but others were beaten to death or slaughtered with knives.
Lets add to the list of "marxist" cultists
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workers%27_Institute_of_Marxism%E2%80%93Leninism%E2%80%93Mao_Zedong_Thought
Ι wouldn't classify the Khmer Rouge as a cult exactly. Just really fucked up and ass backward. Everyone was basically winging it based on a terrible misunderstanding of pretty much everything and disregard for human life. They mostly had no idea what they were doing and power was actually not extremely centralized like you'd expect from a cult, because of how incompetent the leadership was.
Khmer Rouge said they were never Communists:
and People's Temple was a total psyop after the 1960s. In fact, I have seen little evidence to show that Jim Jones wasn't himself a patsy in the larger late 1970s push to re-consolidate CIA power. Leo Ryan was notoriously anti-CIA
Not impossible.
maybe not quite a cult but the United Red Army were pretty wack.
[...]
[...]
not as crazy as these guys
Can add the original Mormons, with the Law of Consecration
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialism_with_Chinese_characteristics
deleted by creator