The Khmer Rouge bashed babies’ skulls into trees, shot just about everyone who could read, deliberately killed people in the Killing Fields and concentration camps.
The Shining Path boiled babies alive, hung dogs on lampposts, (I think) did school shootings.
Most other communist movements, like the Bolsheviks, the CPC, the Viet Cong were a lot more tame and connected with the people.
I haven’t even seen that many ultras advocating for this level of violence by these dogmatic bastards.
What the f*ck caused all this ultra violence to happen?
I could be wrong, but I’ve never seen a good source saying that Pol Pot never read theory. I think he admitted to reading theory, but he discarded most of it.