"If We Have Rice, We Can Have Everything": A Critique of Khmer Rouge Ideology and Practice
Submitted on July 10, 2011
By Junge Linke - Libcom
...Pol Pot and his alleged ‘stone-age communism’ is always invoked as a counter-‘argument’...[to] show what happens if people attempt to change society radically. [The Khmer Rouge] seems to be made for this purpose: a group of left-wing students in Paris encounter what passes at the time for Marxism; they later join the Communist Party, return to their home country, go underground...come to power through a guerrilla army, and then set up a regime of terror...Bourgeois common sense has always pictured communism like this, hence the outrage is great and there is little interest in finding out why the Khmer Rouge did what they did.
