AHC: Khmer Rouge ideology spreading to other countries

How could Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouges’ ideology spread outside of Cambodia and into other third world countries?
 
Cambodian nationalism (as well as anti-Vietnamese racism) was an integral aspect of the ideology of the Khmer Rouge. I don't see how it can be exported easily to other countries without radically changing it.
 
Cambodian nationalism (as well as anti-Vietnamese racism) was an integral aspect of the ideology of the Khmer Rouge. I don't see how it can be exported easily to other countries without radically changing it.
I suppose you could have a more generic kind of Zero Hour Marxism taking up the concept of rebooting society through deindustrialization while ditching the Khmer nationalism part.
 
http://cambodialpj.org/article/justice-and-starvation-in-cambodia-the-khmer-rouge-famine/

A big part of the ideology was that they could simply will a three-fold increase in rice production, and if this wasn’t happening it was taken as automatic evidence of “sabotage.” And apparently they may have exported to China as if they were achieving three-fold.

The really big death tolls came from starvation, not direct killing, although no shit, that was certainly bad enough. First it was starvation of “new people” (city people), and then pretty much everyone except maybe the inner party circle.
 
It's hard to imagine Democratic Kampuchea's form of Marxism-Leninism spreading much beyond Cambodia. None of the leaders of the party were very much into writing theory, and would be unlikely to put much effort into spreading their ideology around the world in the way that the Soviet Union did with Marxism-Leninism, China did with Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, and Albania did with Hoxha's brand of Marxism-Leninism. Democratic Kampuchea was and would probably continue to be in the US-China bloc rather than trying to do its own thing, if only because it would be so dependent on trade/support and military protection from China against Vietnam.
 
To the extent that the Khmer Rouge can be considered Maoist in its orientation, then it did have an ideology that had already spread throughout the world, via Chinese propaganda. Not sure if there's anything specific that the KR contributed that was sellable abroad.
 
Cambodian nationalism (as well as anti-Vietnamese racism) was an integral aspect of the ideology of the Khmer Rouge. I don't see how it can be exported easily to other countries without radically changing it.

Well, it should be noted that, when some Maoists switched over to Albania in the mid-70s, they apparently began studying obscure details of Albanian history with fervour...

Hoxha’s new disciples have lost no time boning up on their Albanian history – a subject which is close to the hearts of the intensely nationalistic bureaucrats in Tirana. Last month the BU and CPC(M-L) joined with the “glorious Albanian people” to celebrate the victory won by Skanderbeg (Albania’s Joan of Arc) over the Turks in 1443!

So, if people are desperate for foreign inspiration, we probably shouldn't underestimate their capacity to get ecstatic over cultural arcania. Granted, the Hoxhaites never became a huge thing anywhere, but then, neither did Maoists, in absolute terms.

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. . Democratic Kampuchea was and would probably continue to be in the US-China bloc . .
After Vietnam invaded Cambodia on Dec. 25, 1978, and stopped the genocide, we were anti-Vietnam.

Not quite as simple as saying we sided with the remnants of the Khmer Rouge. We sided with a coalition of Cambodian factions of which the Khmer Rouge was a major part.

This was true for both the Carter administration and the Reagan administration. And this wasn’t just true of the big bad ol’ U. S. of A. There were a number of western countries which froze out both Vietnam and occupied Cambodia from international aid and development all through the decade of the 1980s.
 
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I think one could formulate a genocidal nationalist movement with a strong agrarian fetish in quite a few countries. It wouldn't have the Maoist trappings of the Khmer Rouge though.
 
Cambodian nationalism (as well as anti-Vietnamese racism) was an integral aspect of the ideology of the Khmer Rouge. I don't see how it can be exported easily to other countries without radically changing it.
What about Khmer Rouge ideology outside the specific Khemer or Cambodian ideogies. Meaning no Khmer nationalism, and no racism based on historical Khmer experiences and predjudices.
 
. . . the Hoxaites never became a huge thing anywhere, but then, neither did Maoists, in absolute terms.
maybe not in absolute terms, but Mao had a certain popularity simply because he could turn a pithy phrase. And Pol Pot also spent effort on phrases and slogans (one can judge with what success)
 
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