From Sean Thomas at The Spectator.
When the KR ran out of obvious bourgeoisie to kill, they killed each other. For any reason. People caught with snails in their pockets were killed. People were killed for having sex, or being happy, or laughing. In the end it is estimated the Khmer Rouge slaughtered about 2-3 million people in a population of 8 million. Cambodia is the nation that crucified itself.
Why? Why was this regime so mad? This is the question many have asked. After this latest visit, finally going to Choeung Ek, I think I perhaps have an answer. In his fine, troubling book – The Elimination – about his interviews with Duch, Khmer Rouge survivor Rithy Panh quotes Duch saying that in his world ‘there is no place for the individual’, and ‘beauty is an obstacle’.
This is important because it reveals the insane yet inexorable logic of the Khmer Rouge. If Marxism means enforced equality, its ultimate endpoint is this. Individuals cannot be ‘allowed’ as they might be ‘different’, they might laugh or be happy, unlike others. Beauty – physical, artistic, sexual, spiritual, intellectual – must likewise be ruthlessly extinguished, because it too prevents a Marxist Utopia. Beauty is unfair. It must be eliminated.
Enforced equality is literally ugly.
One of the many inherent contradictions with leftist “intersectionalism” is that the ultimate identity group is the individual and individuals have a tendency to be, you know, individual, with unique perspectives and goals, which tends to run afoul of the groupthink the leftist intersectionalists demand.
I don't think the aristocracy gives a rat's ass how diverse we are in all the crazy cultural ways they can think up to divide us but financially? "Just a little breathing room".
Not quite Ronnie ;
True that marxism is, was and always will be a dishonest scam to enslave others .
Even Karl Marx wrote later he was completely wrong because marxism goes against Human nature .
Cleaning mythical 'leftists' is patently dishonest, you have a bully pulpit here, consider using it to help others instead of mindlessly attacking .
-Nate