>Look what the Khmer Rouge did after they won the war for Cambodia - killed nearly two million of their own people during “peacetime”. Oddly enough, the killing stopped when they were invaded by another communist country (post-war Vietnam); they in turn were invaded by another communist country (Red China) as retribution...
The Khmer Rouge had trapped themselves in a leftist holier than thou cycle, similar to the reign of terror in France and the cultural revolution in China. Every week people had to be more left wing the last and people not left wing enough where killed. Vietnam invaded them because Khmer Rouge were going to kill every last person in the country because of this cycle. It’s happened over and over again when left wingers get total power and it’s only stopped by internal strongmen or external invasion.
Quoting a Neo-ractionary writer Jim on leftist singularities like Cambodia:
Leftism is Phariseeism. A leftist is supposedly holier than you are, and so you should obey him. Leftists then compete each to be holier than the other, so Leftism’s religious roots are swiftly left behind, as leftism becomes ever more extreme.
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The French Red Terror, the Soviet Great Terror, the Cambodian autogenocide, and many others were all examples of what I call left political singularities.
Left wing repression tends to make things lefter, which tends to worsen left wing repression, which makes things even lefter, which … The process only stops when the latest despot starts to realize he is not left enough, he is being outflanked on the left, is going to be overthrown by those even lefter than himself, and promptly executes everyone important who is even lefter than he is.
Right wing repression does not have this effect, because right wing repression, for example Pinochet, pressures people to forget about politics, whereas left wing repression reaches into every person’s life and forcefully pressures them to piously say the politically correct things. Left wing repression forcibly politicizes everything, even your personal private sexual activities. Right wing repression depoliticizes everything.
The open attack on the nuclear family was one of the more disturbing aspects of their indoctrination; the children became property of the state in a manner that would make American leftists green with envy...