What Was Pol Pot's Reforms

It is ok to want change, but the thing to understand about change is that it doesn’t all happen over night. It is true Cambodia was in a bad state and needed a reform but the fact that Pol Pot wanted the reform to occur in two years was what pushed him to act so radically. One thing that is very noticeable in the regime is that the things that he felt were bad in Capitalism and should be kept from the people he still did. To cover for it he created the name Angkar, so in a way Pol Pot, his family, and those he trusted most were divine and could hold on to their old lives and morals while everyone else had to be robots. He tried to build a world of equality but nepotism still existed. Basically he tried to erase blood lines saying everything was communal even parents there was no family, yet he held fast to his family. …show more content…
The food rationing as much as he tried to say it was equal was never equal certain people who he liked more would receive higher portions of food. This was the same thing the capitalist government under Sihanouk did. The basic point here is that it is in our human nature to favor others or want to compete. The world cannot have everything equal no matter what, it will always end badly. The hypocrisy in this regime was obtrusive, one would expect the creator of something to at least follow the rules precisely and set an example but that was not the case. It seemed as though he knew that a world could not be run without access to outside resources and people could not just pretend that bloodlines did not exist that would be redefining human nature; something unheard of. The absence of the ability to empathize is what could have caused Pol Pot to make the people do such things and abide by such rules, rules that even he couldn’t