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  • volkvulture [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    Khmer Rouge said they were never Communists:

    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