They have taken the "classless society" of Marx and put it together with the "natural selection" of Darwin. Cities breed civilization. they are saying. civilization differentiates between people. creating classes. therefore. we will drive the populace out of the corrupting cities. back to the purifying land. where only the fittest will survive. This is social engineering on a scale that would make a Stalin blush. creating a society of equals by making everybody a refugee. Since you cant make an omelette without breaking some eggs. the Cambodian leaders wish to conduct their experiment in private. which is why foreign newsmen have been deported. In the United States. that leaves us to a fruitless debate about how many thousand executions make a bloodbath. Many commentators have long been saying that the Cambodians are a gentle people who would return to peaceful ways If only we were not there. and they have been deriding predictions of mass executions as merely scare tactics to justify our proppingup of corrupt dictatorships.
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Generalization about Cambodians being a gentle people.