Page 150 - Communism in Ambush

The Khmer Rouge
came to power after a
bloody civil war.
These photos were
taken during the
bloody civil war as
the Khmer Rouge at-
tacked the capital,
Phnom Penh. This was
the harbinger of terri-
ble brutality.

above, as many of the leaders lived apart from their wives or husbands.
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These measures are actually nothing more than Karl Marx and
Friedrich Engels' interpretation of the origin of the family, put into ac-
tion. Marx and Engels viewed human beings as animals evolved from
monkeys, for whom concepts of religion, morality and family were not
necessary. These were "superstructure institutions" that came to be as
the result of economic relations. A Communist society promised to de-
stroy these concepts. So the Khmer Rouge's project was nothing else
than to put life into the nonsense proposed by Marx and Engels.
The Khmer Rouge wanted to destroy the religion and the family,
bestialize human beings and make them like "oxen that plough the
fields". Khmer Rouge once again applied measures used earlier by
Lenin, Stalin, and Mao by deliberately letting people go hungry, thereby
destroying their wills and personalities. Later, after being fed by
Angkar, they would come to worship the Khmer Rouge as so-called
gods:
T The hunger that crushed so many Cambodians over the years was used
deliberately by the regime in the service of its interests. The hungrier peo-
ple were, the less food their bodies could store, and the less likely they
were to run away. If people were permanently obsessed with food, all in-
dividual thought, all capacity to argue, even people's sex drive, would dis-
appear. The games that were played with the food supply made forced
evacuations easier, promoted acceptance of the collective canteens, and
also weakened interpersonal relationships, including those between par-