Pol Pot was a Marxist. He headed the Communist Party in Cambodia from 1963 to 1981. During that time he turned Cambodia into a one-party dictatorship. His goal was to turn Cambodia into an agrarian socialist society.
Between 1975 and 1979, an estimated 1.5 to 2 million people were killed. They were the “Bad Elements” and “New People” which were intellectuals, government officials, Buddhists, shopkeepers and other ethnicities that were looked down upon.
Before they could carry out their cultural revolution they first had to erase history.
Pot and his government, the Khmer Rouge, called their extermination “Year Zero.” And it was the idea that time began with Pot’s rule. To that end, culture, history, religion and traditions all had to be destroyed so the new communist state could be born.
The same thing happened in previous revolutions in Russia after WWI and China after WWII.
And now it is happening here in the States.
Of equally important note is that socialism and communism are really two sides of the same coin. As Kurt Nimmo points out on his blog:
“If one understands that socialism is not a share-the-wealth program, but is in reality a method to consolidate and control the wealth, then the seeming paradox of superrich men promoting socialism becomes no paradox at all. Instead it becomes the logical, even the perfect tool of power-seeking megalomaniacs. Communism, or more accurately, socialism, is not a movement of the downtrodden masses, but of the economic elite.”