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Originally Posted by PointlessWords
Where did he get his communist training from?
Sounds to me like he was a liar and a manipulator, not a scholar that tried communism and had it fail
Lol Pol Pot was from money, studied in Paris and joing paris communists in his late 20s. He studied communist books, discussed them, freaking organized "bible groups"-like event to discuss communist texts (Le Cercle Marxiste).
Even while coming from money, and reaching France on a scolarship though, he wasn't good enough to pass exams so he had to drop out there. He wasn't qualified for public school but became a private school teacher for years when back in Cambodia.
He is the most communist intelligentsia person possible: a failed upper-middle class intellectual mediocrity full of envy and anger at society.