Year Zero is Cambodia's very fucked up re imagining of Mao's The Great Leap Forward. Both movements, have key similarities as the Khemer Rouge ideology copied elements of Maoism. Both aimed to strengthen collectivism. Both aimed a cultural revolution through education. And because of tyrannical and repressive setups, not to mention it was making very unrealistic goals of production, it lead to starvation and death. But why is Year Zero more fucked up in comparison? Because the Khemer Rouge brand of Communism was so extreme, it actually thought of modernization as Bourgeois and would only promote individualism instead of collectivism. This is the very key difference of the two. China was headed towards an opposite direction, which was modernization through heavy industrialization so that its economy could compete with the West. Pol Pot did not at all consider this. In fact it wanted to go back to the old agricultural ways of Cambodia. It wanted to convert many vast lands in the rural areas into agricultural fields. Everyone was forced to farm, as it aimed to make the unrealistic goals of tripling the country's rice production WITHOUT THE USE OF ANY MODERN FARMING EQUIPMENT AS THE REGIME WAS VERY XENOPHOBIC. So you got workers who were undernourished left to work the fields until they died of starvation and exhaustion. Moreover, the Khemer Rouge destoryed many schools as it thought farming was the only education peasants.... well actually everyone needed. It burned banks, factories, and anything that had influence from the modern world.
Polpot and his fellow KR did not know anything about communism , he knew only revolutionary. He is mistaken collectivism with state slavery. Communism and collectivism is something very difficult to achieve, thats why people call it utopian dream.
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If I’m not mistaken, year zero predates medieval Cambodia even before the construction of Angkor Wat. Talk about a dark time for modern civilians.
Really?
Year Zero is Cambodia's very fucked up re imagining of Mao's The Great Leap Forward.
Both movements, have key similarities as the Khemer Rouge ideology copied elements of Maoism. Both aimed to strengthen collectivism. Both aimed a cultural revolution through education. And because of tyrannical and repressive setups, not to mention it was making very unrealistic goals of production, it lead to starvation and death.
But why is Year Zero more fucked up in comparison? Because the Khemer Rouge brand of Communism was so extreme, it actually thought of modernization as Bourgeois and would only promote individualism instead of collectivism. This is the very key difference of the two. China was headed towards an opposite direction, which was modernization through heavy industrialization so that its economy could compete with the West. Pol Pot did not at all consider this. In fact it wanted to go back to the old agricultural ways of Cambodia. It wanted to convert many vast lands in the rural areas into agricultural fields. Everyone was forced to farm, as it aimed to make the unrealistic goals of tripling the country's rice production WITHOUT THE USE OF ANY MODERN FARMING EQUIPMENT AS THE REGIME WAS VERY XENOPHOBIC. So you got workers who were undernourished left to work the fields until they died of starvation and exhaustion.
Moreover, the Khemer Rouge destoryed many schools as it thought farming was the only education peasants.... well actually everyone needed. It burned banks, factories, and anything that had influence from the modern world.
Not like the Modern Marxist or Leninist social democratic ideology.
Polpot and his fellow KR did not know anything about communism , he knew only revolutionary. He is mistaken collectivism with state slavery.
Communism and collectivism is something very difficult to achieve, thats why people call it utopian dream.
i dont see Shihanok was so stressed about losing his people. Actually, from many video, all Cambodian leaders do not seem valued human life.
Shianook was a bourgeois monarchist, no surprise therefore
Thanks for this documentary.
Ce roi est fou😢😭
3 millions mort on ne pardonne pas ce merde
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Hi do you know where I can get a copy of all of these movies clip? Thanks
The problem with fanaticism.
5:12 warmest greetings and failure to clap and show up meant a plastic garbage bag over your face
But at 8:33, where is that music from?
I guess the 2 dislikes were Khmer Rouge lovers
tat ca chung ta .hay tranh xa cam pu chia.tranh xa nguoi campuchia
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Certainly no half measures from the Khmer Rouge. . . Total commitment might not always be a virtue. Depends upon the cause.