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Yea no, I'm not a Pol Pot defender.
The only way I can imagine you don’t defend Pol Pot, as a communist, in any regard is if you don’t actually hold to the notion of taking back communist history from “bourgeois historiography”™ and not automatically accepting prepared narratives. "Historical idealism" in the sense Losurdo talks about in "Hegel, Marx, and the Ontology of Social Being."
Pol Pot admitted to not being a communist, had an agrarian focus, committed what I would consider to be genocide against Vietnamese and pro-Vietnamese Cambodians, and was pro-US and supported by them. I can't support that.