The Khmer Communists as I understand it, gained some interpretation of Communism, or rather its Bolshevised version, particularly its Asian variant called Maoism. Over the years there has been the view that the Cambodian Revolution was ‘Maoism writ large,’ and that its most extreme aspects, particularly a Communist refocusing on challenging the differences between the [...]
Here’s an excerpt from the novel of Ros Chantrabot titled The Husband, Master of all his Wife’s Feelings, or Mchas bdey duong chet oun. Ros Chantrabot is the author of La Republique Khmere and other books, but there’s a small chance that there were two authors with the same name. The novel was published in [...]
A few days ago I had a nerdy online argument (as you do) over the nature of Khmer Communist aims, as understood by the Pol Pot group, and what was supposed to have happened in Democratic Kampuchea under their leadership. Not that it means much, but I believe that despite seeming absurdities and an overriding [...]
