Reading ‘Pol Pot-An anatomy’ at the moment by Phillip Short . Heavy going at times but illuminating and horrifying in equal measure .
The Khmer Rouge sought to wipe out everything in people’s minds down to the very vocabulary they used, so as to replace the process of thought with the slogans of propaganda . He started of course as all authoritarians do with the shutting down of MSM and then the places of learning , summarily executing anyone with even a rudimentary education .
Scienctific discovery was of course bourgeois and all science text books were burned .
It didn’t end well .
