ABSTRACT
The People's Republic of Kampuchea (PRK) in many respects is a postrevolutionary society. Democratic Kampuchea (DK), nearly two years after the abolition of the Communist Party of Kampuchea (CPK), disavows any revolutionary intentions. In 1976, a party spokesman, writing in a CPK journal, went so far as to suggest that secrecy itself was to be taken as the "basis" of the revolution. At the end of August 1976, an economic development plan for the years 1977-1980 was discussed at a three-day meeting sponsored by the party center. Shortly afterward, the CPK set in motion the first of many purges against "traitors" (kbot) allegedly embedded in its ranks. On December 20, 1976, the party center completed a fifty-eight-page document, for internal distribution, entitled "Report on the Activities of the Party Center: Political Tasks, 1976." The remaining problems obstructing the achievement of CPK goals have to do with seed-rice, fertilizers, tools, and medicine for the peasants.
