A reader reminded me that that a leader of the Khmer Rouge, Pol Pot, embraced the same ideals we are listening to in the rising trend of socialism and climate change. Pot came to admire the tribes in Cambodia's rural northeast. He saw these people were self-sufficient and lived on the goods they produced through subsistence farming. He embraced Marxism and saw modern society as evil, as we are hearing once again in the climate change movement. The Cambodian tribes, from Pot's perspective, were like communes that worked together and shared everything from their collective labor. He touted that they...
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