>Lovely talk in the abstract, Chuck. But the specifics do still seem
>to come down to Pol Pot, whether there is coersion or no. Pol Pot
>had the same unprincipled idealism--- change [Cambodia's] way of
>life so that it can survive capitalism.....
Ah, but as Slavoj Zizek wrote in Tarrying with the Negative, "Prior to becoming a revolutionary, Pol Pot was a professor at a French lycee in Phnom Penh, known for his subtle readings of Rimbaud and Mallarme...." I don't think we have to worry about such high-flown tastes here!
Doug