'''Pol Potism''', or else known as '''Khmer Rougeism''', is a totalitarian<ref>https://www.jstor.org/stable/3992949</ref>, economically far-left, culturally far-right<ref>https://www.hmd.org.uk/learn-about-the-holocaust-and-genocides/cambodia/khmer-rouge-ideology/</ref>, anti-industrial<ref>https://jacobinmag.com/2019/04/khmer-rouge-james-tyner-cambodia-violence</ref>, ethno-ultranationalist, anti-intellectual and highly genocidal ideology inhabiting the top left corner of the Political Compass. He was supported by [[File: Mao.png]] [[Maoism]] during the Cambodian Civil War<ref name=":0">https://web.archive.org/web/20201217133253/https://yaleglobal.yale.edu/content/chinas-aid-emboldens-cambodiahttps://web.archive.org/web/20201217133253/https://yaleglobal.yale.edu/content/chinas-aid-emboldens-cambodia</ref>. He strongly hates and has killed many intellectuals<ref name=":1">https://cla.umn.edu/chgs/holocaust-genocide-education/resource-guides/cambodia#:~:text=Because%20the%20Khmer%20Rouge%20placed,Pol%20Pot%27s%20reign%20of%20terror.</ref>, people with glasses<ref name=":1" />, landlords, rich people, urbanites, political dissidents, Buddhists<ref>https://www.culturalsurvival.org/publications/cultural-survival-quarterly/buddhism-and-revolution-cambodia</ref>, Vietnamese people<ref>https://sfi.usc.edu/collections/cambodian-genocide</ref>, journalists, Muslims, Christians and Chinese people. He also hates currency<ref>https://www.eastwestcenter.org/publications/riel-value-money-how-worlds-only-attempt-abolish-money-has-hindered-cambodias-economic-</ref><ref>https://www.independent.co.uk/news/the-khmer-rouge-abolished-money-now-they-want-ours-1291688.html</ref> and has a habit of blowing up central banks<ref>https://theacheron.medium.com/that-one-time-pol-pot-blew-up-the-central-bank-e130c23b64a0</ref>.
==History ==
This Ideology Kinda died with the Regime but it lives on in Modern day Cambodian Communism.
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