The communist seeds of depravity and violence have sprouted

American Thinker ^ | 5 May, 2026 | Susan Quinn

[MtnClimber]

When we speak to people about communism, especially young people, they often insist that although communism has failed everywhere it’s been tried, the U.S. will be successful in adopting it.

They clearly have not learned the lessons of human nature and depravity. And they might be surprised to learn that those attributes exist abundantly in this country.

We only need to study Cambodia, one of the most extreme applications of communism ever imposed, to get a hint of what might show up here. Young people in this country have a hard time relating to the Killing Fields, because the main message generally communicated is that millions of people were killed at the hands of one man: Pol Pot. But what is lost in relating the gruesome story is that Pol Pot was a communist.

During the last days of the Vietnam War in April 1975, Cambodia’s pro-American government was overthrown by the Communist Party of Kampuchea under the leadership of Pol Pot. His ideology deeply rooted in Marxist-Leninist thought, Pol Pot rallied his Khmer Rouge army in support of his vision of a self-sufficient agrarian society, founded on the principles of Mao’s Cultural Revolution in China and free of foreign influence.

In order to meet that goal, urbanites needed to be evacuated from the cities. Doctors, lawyers, teachers, monks, and other professionals were sent to labor in the fields, being forced to work well beyond their strength. If you even looked like an intellectual, which could include wearing glasses, you were an enemy of the state.

The atrocities that were committed during Pol Pot’s reign are difficult to fathom. Torture and executions were common; imprisonment was standard. Eventually, Pol Pot was defeated by the Vietnamese army.

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TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: bolsheviks; communism; democrats; depravity; domesticenemies; insurgency; leftism; sprouted; violence

[NFHale]

Interesting that they have some young stupid woman who knows nothing about life and clearly nothing about history, as the mouthpiece in that little video.

Understand that we cannot coexist with these people. Their brains are gone, and if they get control, we’re not voting our way out of it.

It’ll take much… Stronger measures… Than voting.

[Lopeover]

“The Plymouth Pilgrims accidentally ran the first documented socialist experiment in America three centuries before Marx scribbled his manifesto. Governor William Bradford’s “common storehouse” system from 1620-1623 delivered textbook collectivist results: mass shirking, crop failures, and near-starvation.” more at link.

https://x.com/handre/status/2051753570148462798?s=61

[AZJeep]

Pol Pot rallied his Khmer Rouge army in support of his vision of a self-sufficient agrarian society
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Apparently, in his early day, he live in some remote villages in mountains. These people lived without money, sharing everything.
So he decided, this is the model he would like to implement, making all people as happy as these villagers.

So he cleaned cities, kill everybody he was not aligned with his vision and expected the people will be happy.

Communists always start with good intentions!

And it always turn terrible.
From economic collapse at the best, to murdering fields at the worst.

[dfwgator]

Pol Pot was educated in France.

Anything bad that happens in the world, always has something to do with France.

[dfwgator]

Communists always start with good intentions!

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No they don’t. For them, it’s all about getting absolute power.

[Georgia Girl 2]

“Do they teach history in public schools anymore”

Not in any context you or I would recognize.

[If You Want It Fixed - Fix It]

Waste of time.

All facts, all history, all obviousness in front of them is a lie, a falshood.

They are unreachable, like other criminals.

Pay the tax of fighting them, conversion is impossible.

[sauropod]

See pro-pali protests at Columbia.

[caddie]

1.) I recommend The Epoch Times which is really good anti-Communist educational material.

2.) The Communists have been in increasing strength or ascendancy really since about 1820.

3.) Though the Communists have had a cogent, well-rehearsed, and unifying doctrine of collectivism, they have also really smartly packaged it to appeal to human nature's base aspects: Envy, lust, anger, greed, cliquishness, pride, etc. Basically the seven deadly sins.

4.) Normals and conservatives on the other hand have had NO organized opposition or counterstrategy to block or combat the growth of Communism. We are REALLY late to the game, and that is saying it nicely.

5.) We need to realize that combating the Communists is important in both the pre-kinetic phase, where nullifying their psy-ops and propaganda is important; and also the kinetic phase, where the Communists start killing everybody by the millions.

6.) Communists are A-OK with killing millions and millions of normals. It's their religion. They BELIEVE in this.

7.) Even smiling, up-talking, cutie Communist girls on TV. Even grandfatherly, professorial, kindly old Communist men. They are all mass murderers. It's what they do.

8.) Communists use lying, projection, and murder as fundamental tactics. It is a part of their philosophy.

This article is good orientation toward them and their beliefs.