Wikipedia: Khmer Rouge

I have placed this link on HPC, in light of concerns of food shortages, the financial turmoil and the general apathy of our current political system. Although the Khmer Rouge was a fairly shortlived affair, and their doctrines extreme. I would argue that the same fate is being played on the UK poplation (less overtly), vis-a-vis debt, student debt, diminishing standards of living - QOL. Breakdown in society, etc, etc.
"In power, the Khmer Rouge carried out a radical program that included isolating the country from foreign influence, closing schools, hospitals and factories, abolishing banking, finance and currency, outlawing all religions, confiscating all private property and relocating people from urban areas to collective farms where forced labor was widespread. The purpose of this"