ABSTRACT
This chapter talks about the literal interpretation of Franz Kafka's message in some of his classic novels, namely The Trial and The Castle. It analyzes the Khmer Rouge revolution with special consideration of the case of the movement's leader, Pol Pot, the man who led the clique that tried to construct a utopian project including management by terror and murder on a massive scale. The chapter is divided into three major sections: utopia, organization, and terror. The nature of utopia, in general, and the case of the utopian project devised by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Kampuchea (CPK), in particular. This chapter discusses that how the CPK leadership use the old institutional frameworks to initiate its radical revolution, with results both expected and unexpected. Among the institutions that represent the old order, people consider three at the heart of change: religion in the form of Theravada Buddhism, the family, and the monarchy.
