Seen and heard on Ms. Theary C. Seng's Facebook accounts:
www.facebook.com/theary.c.seng
www.facebook.com/theary.c.seng
Re-reading Philip Short's brilliant biography, POL POT: Anatomy of a Nightmare:
...it was a journey in the dark. 'We applied ourselves [define a
direction] and then to put it into practice without knowing whether it
was right or wrong.' There was no model, no blueprint, but rather 'a
mixture [of influences], a little if this, a little of that... I copied
no one. It was what I saw in the country that made an impression on me...
Those remembered fragments are revealing. Not for Sar [Pol Pot] and his
colleagues the certainties of 'scientific socialism', in which the
writings of Marx and Lenin, of Mao and Stalin, would provide ready-made
answers for every problem that might arise. The Cambodians sought their
path to communism intuitively...
Such unschooled, almost mystical approach to communism had no precedent either in Chinese or in European Marxism...
Mao's revolutionary romanticism was tapered, in theory at least, by an awareness of reality...
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