Ideologies / Stalinist-Marxist / Pol Pot
§ The minds · 1925–1998 · Cambodia · Khmer Rouge leader
Pol Pot
Year Zero
Agrarian communism by annihilation.
Economic−100
SocialistMarket
Governance+99
LibertarianAuthoritarian
Social+60
TraditionalProgressive
The Khmer Rouge leader whose attempt to reset Cambodia to 'Year Zero' emptied the cities and produced one of the 20th century's worst genocides.
social
Radical anti-urban, anti-intellectual erasure of the old order.
economic
Abolished money, cities and private life for forced rural collectivism.
governance
Among the most extreme totalitarian regimes in modern history.
Notable for
- Led the Khmer Rouge
- Emptied Cambodia's cities
- The Cambodian genocide
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