Because ultimately the Khmer Rouge doesn’t have a successful legacy that needs debunking. We all know how successful the USSR was and how China continues to be. The capitalists need to be able to see “ok sure the commies maybe had incredible growth and improvement of living standards… but they killed a gajillion people to do it.”

They attack the ones that succeeded in achieving revolution. They're perfectly fine with leftists following the theory that fails.

Pol Pot should be THE thing that anticommunist bring first, but their brainpan render them unable to learn more than two (2) ebil gommunists names

did that actually happen, do you know?

I don't really know much about shining path, and I tend to automatically disbelieve anything a settler colonial state like Peru or the US etc says, especially when its blood libel level outrageous.

A true revolutionary washes their chicken in the sink and splashes salmonella around their kitchen

Jordan Peterson: you aren't allowed to have a political opinion until you clean your room.

Me, a Marxist-Bidetist: you aren't allowed to have a political opinion until you clean your butthole.

I tend to reject gatekeeping, but this is one gate I think we should keep around.

I wonder what his reaction would be if he saw that protest on an American campus where white leftists were chanting about how good Gonzalo is a couple years ago

I don't particularly recommend reading the work of the baby soup guy, but here you go

Usually they mean read Collected Works of the Communist Party of Peru, General Line of PCP, or interview with Gonzalo. Think there's some stuff directly attributed to him that's mostly based on expanding Mariategui.