Pol Pot Socialism
Radical agrarian communism of the Khmer Rouge that emptied cities, abolished money and markets, and pursued an egalitarian peasant society by force, causing one of the greatest genocides of the 20th century in Cambodia.
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Radical agrarian communism of the Khmer Rouge that emptied cities, abolished money and markets, and pursued an egalitarian peasant society by force, causing one of the greatest genocides of the 20th century in Cambodia.
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I want an egalitarian peasant society, without cities, money or markets, rebuilt by force under the revolutionary Angkar.
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Our Pol Pot Socialism model centers on egalitarian peasant society, without cities, money or markets, rebuilt by force under the revolutionary Angkar. That core does not specify the constitutional allocation of power between territorial units and a center. Administrative centralization, social equality and opposition to the state are different claims from a federal constitution.

Our Pol Pot Socialism model centers on egalitarian peasant society, without cities, money or markets, rebuilt by force under the revolutionary Angkar. That core does not specify who can choose, replace and hold political decision-makers accountable. A social or economic objective does not by itself establish elections, popular sovereignty or an unelected ruling elite.

Our Pol Pot Socialism definition includes “without cities, money or markets, rebuilt by force under the revolutionary Angkar”. The target of restraint or opposition matters: rejecting hierarchy or compulsion is different from endorsing security-oriented control.

Our Pol Pot Socialism model centers on egalitarian peasant society, without cities, money or markets, rebuilt by force under the revolutionary Angkar. That core does not specify minority membership, migration and the coexistence of cultural identities. Shared economic interests or a universal philosophical ethic do not alone specify immigration or cultural-integration policy.

Our Pol Pot Socialism definition includes “without cities, money or markets, rebuilt by force under the revolutionary Angkar”. The statement's use, rejection or limitation of force must be distinguished; a reference to violence inside a rejected claim is not evidence of pacifism or militarism by itself.


The stated use of force concerns domestic reconstruction, ecological discipline or state-led modernization.

Our Pol Pot Socialism model centers on egalitarian peasant society, without cities, money or markets, rebuilt by force under the revolutionary Angkar. That core does not specify ownership of productive assets, land and enterprises. Welfare spending, moral solidarity and expert administration do not by themselves abolish or privatize productive ownership.

The definition abolishes money and markets and imposes agrarian reconstruction through revolutionary authority. This supports a directed-allocation interpretation rather than market exchange; the exact planning coordinate models that coercive program, not a measurement supplied by the description.

Our Pol Pot Socialism model centers on egalitarian peasant society, without cities, money or markets, rebuilt by force under the revolutionary Angkar. That core does not specify cross-border trade, capital flows and economic integration. Domestic market freedom and international cultural solidarity are different claims from a free-trade policy.

The catalogue locates common rules in revolutionary agrarian authority rather than clerical law. Abolition of older religious institutions is consistent with this secular institutional reading, but agrarian life or collectivization alone does not determine it.

Our Pol Pot Socialism model centers on egalitarian peasant society, without cities, money or markets, rebuilt by force under the revolutionary Angkar. That core does not specify public attitudes toward inherited customs, family, gender and social change. Economic redistribution, technological novelty and a religious affiliation do not uniquely determine every moral position.

Our Pol Pot Socialism definition includes “egalitarian peasant society”. Ecological limits or rural production is relevant to the biology side, without implying opposition to every scientific or agricultural technique.

Leans further toward biology than 98% of the 250 ideologies in the catalog.
Of all the axes, Technology is where it stands furthest from the rest.

On Morality, it sits practically at the catalog median.
Here it shares common ground with most ideologies.

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