>>2579915>That wasn't the case though. It's pretty clear from Khmer Rouge proclamations, speeches and documents.Yeah, and there's a difference between rhetoric and reality. They produced propaganda claiming they were at the lower stage of communism, while completely going against Marxist, Soviet, or Chinese models.
The Khmer Rouge attempted a rapid near-total abolition of money, markets, private property, wages, urban life, family and traditional social structures, over a night in April 1975. Cities were completely emptied. Money was formally abolished. People were forced into agrarian labor communes immediately. All markets were shut down. Their system was radically agrarian and anti-industrial in practice. In 1975, Khmer Rouge representatives to China, Khieu Samphan and Khieu Thirith, said that Pol Pot's belief was that the collectivisation of agriculture was capable of "creating a complete communist society without wasting time on the intermediate steps."