In The Current Phase of the Revolution Our Youth Must Constantly
Strengthen Their Stance of Absolute Class Struggle – The Kmher Rouge, 7/1975

Republished from Revolutionary Male & Female Youth’s, Angkar’s publication for the youth.

Now peace has come to Kampuchean territory again. The Kampuchean nation and people have been co
-mpletely liberated from exploitation and all kinds of pressures. All types of imperialists, in particular the
American imperialists and their servants, have been driven from Kampuchean territory. The feudalist class
and the capitalist class that were the major exploiting classes put down the deepest roots in Kampuchean
society for more than two millennia now have basically been completely overthrown by the workers and
the peasants under the correct and clear-sighted leadership of the Communist Party of Kampuchea, i.e.,
both their economic foundations and their political regime have been overthrown. Thus, the new Kampu
-chean society after 17 April 1975 has only two classes: the worker class and the peasant class. On 17
April 1975, we completely achieved the national-democratic revolution. So now we are advancing into
the next phase, making socialist revolution. Therefore, the new Kampuchean society is a society without
exploiters, a society in which the worker-peasant people live in equality, in harmony, in an atmosphere of
solidarity where everyone performs labor on offensives together to produce night and day in order to defend
and build the country. This is a concrete fact that cannot be denied. However, another concrete fact also
exists along with the concrete fact mentioned above, i.e., the imperialists, especially the American imperial
-ists and their servants, have truly been driven from Kampuchean territory. Their political-military and
espionage networks have truly been smashed and scattered in bits. Their neo-colonial regime has truly
been completely smashed and discarded. The feudalist class and the capitalist class have fundamentally
been overthrown, both their economic foundations and their political regime, but feudal individuals and
capitalist individuals that today have gone down to increase production in the countryside along with our
peasants are still mixed in along with our peasants throughout the countryside.

Therefore, these feudalists and capitalists still have their outlooks and stances: their greedy desires from the
old days when they exploited the workers and the peasants still reside within their bodies and their thoughts.
Their outlook, stances, ideology, worldview and credo are aphysical objects that are impossible to attack,
completely smash and dispose of immediately. Whether wanted or not, they still exist in our people, in part
-icular in the strata of the new worker-peasant people newly-liberated from the contemptible traitors. Now
the new worker-peasant people from the various towns still live mixed in among our veteran worker-peasant
people scattered throughout Kampuchea. Because of this, whether they want to or not, whether they realize
it or not, these new worker-peasant people are all leading carriers of imperialist-feudalist-capitalist outlooks,
stances, ideologies, worldviews, and credos who are disseminating them among our veteran worker-peasant
people and in our production cooperatives. Moreover, among our veteran worker-peasant people in our revol
-utionary ranks, in the ranks of our army, in our upper- and lower-level production cooperatives, whether in
greater or lesser degrees, still carry the remnant scurf and bad influence of imperialist-feudalist-capitalist
outlooks, stances, ideologies, worldviews, and credos. Example: There are still ideologies and stances of
regionalism, cohort-ism, organizational-ism, group-ism and there still is not any outlook, stance, or ideology
of seeing or thinking the entire country in big and broad terms, even though the Party and the Kampuchean
people grasp state power and govern the entire country. Example: There are still ideologies of status, ranks,
position, function, and personal achievements and feats of arms, not seeing the leadership function of the
Party, not seeing the importance and huge mighty strength of the worker-peasant people that defeated the
American imperialists and liberated Kampuchea, liberated the Kampuchean people, and liberated the worker
-peasant class that had previously been exploited for more than two millennia throughout the country.

Therefore, there is not yet to be seen any correct revolutionary worldview toward the matters of honor, dig-
nity, glory, or superiority at all. Example: There is still the ideology of personalism, seeing and thinking only
one’s personal surroundings, only one’s family and clique surroundings, not yet seeing far away and broadly
all over the country, not yet thinking of joining in the hot and the cold and the hunger along with the worker-
peasant people throughout the country, not yet thinking of the common interest of the collective, whether in
one’s cooperative, unit, or office, and thinking even less of the interests of the entire nation… etc. In today’s
new Kampuchean society, whether in the production cooperatives or in the offices, ministries, or in the various
work sites of the revolution or in each unit of the army or inside each of us individually, there is ongoing combat
between personal feelings and communal feelings, between individual interests and collective interests, bet
-ween the old worn-out exploitative reactionary imperialist-feudalist-capitalist worldviews and the new correct,
pure and progressive revolutionary worldview, between the stances of the exploiting class and the various
other non-working classes and the views and the Party’s proletarian outlook and stances, between the co
-rrupt imperialist-feudal-capitalist credo of letting things slide and the correct, pristine, materialistic and
scientific credos of the revolution. All of this combat is part of the tough and tenacious class combat in the
new current phases of the revolution. A second concrete truth clearly shows that in our new Kampuchean
society, in which exploiting classes are non-existent and despite the fact that only the worker-peasant
classes remain, class struggle has not yet ended or been extinguished, and acute class contradictions
continue to exist. It is merely that their appearance is different from what it was in the war period, when
the feudalists and their servants, the capitalist-feudalist exploiting class, still existed.

Thus, class struggle in the new Kampuchean society must continue to be carried out mightily in a new form
appropriate with the new revolutionary times. But even though class struggle in this new revolutionary period
does not take the form of armed violence, revolutionary war, riots, or blood-letting combat between one ano
-ther, class struggle in this new revolutionary period must be sharp, tense and tenacious; we cannot relax at
all. If we make a superficial examination of outward appearances, we seem to see that class struggle in this
new phase of the revolution has cooled down, is easier and more relaxed than during the era of revolutionary
warfare because there is no shooting and killing and blood-letting. But under in-depth examination, class
struggle in this new phase of revolution is as tense and tenacious and life-and-death as it was during the
era of revolutionary war and is even more difficult than blood-letting struggle because we must fight with
aphysical enemies and adversaries who can neither be seen nor captured. During the period of class struggle
in this new form, if we were to be careless, lax, or look down upon the problem of class contradiction, the
problem of class struggle, and the Party’s working-class stance, the enemy could easily interfere and enter
our ranks, and could easily bore holes to attack the stances of our revolution. Therefore, they could easily
overthrow our present state power and system of rule. Therefore, our revolutionary youth must continue to
strive and concentrate on strengthening a constantly seething stance of class struggle. This new phase of
the revolution, waging socialist revolution and defending and building the post-liberation country to become
lasting and invulnerable, mighty, happy, affluent, esteemed, and prosperous demands from our revolutionary
youth the proletarian class stance of a strong Party, and a sharp and absolute and seething stance of class
struggle, never relaxed, never loose, never eased, not even for a moment. If not, even though we liberated
the entire country, even though we manage state power throughout the country, even though we have
established production cooperatives throughout the countryside, the enemy may be able to overthrow
us by way of stances and then attack and smash us militarily and seize state power back from us.

Therefore, as measures to strengthen the stance of class struggle among our revolutionary youth to be
constantly seething, sharp, and absolute: It is imperative to fight to struggle to build internally to be mighty,
deep, and constantly seething, to inspect and monitor and help in warning and reminding one another at
all times, to rectify one another constantly not to take things lightly, not to be sloppy and let things go letting
errors continue one after another by using the pretext that the enemy is gone, the exploiting class is gone,
etc. It is imperative to constantly fight to build, indoctrinate, strengthen, and expand the Party’s proletarian
stance to reach one’s self, to reach the ranks of our revolutionary youth, not making allowances for our-
selves, not relaxing and keeping the door open for other non-working class stances to enter and co-mingle
along with the Party’s proletarian stance. Our revolutionary youth must constantly keep on building, strength
-ening, expanding, and arming themselves the four essential proletarian qualities of the Party: the highest
sacrifice, the sharpest combat, unconditional respect for organizational discipline, and unceasing innovation
and building. Along with this, it is imperative to constantly have a high spirit of revolutionary vigilance, vigilance
in outlook and stance, vigilance in organization, vigilance in routine daily life, absolutely respecting the organiz
-ational discipline of the Party, absolutely respecting and implementing the Party’s line and organizational
provisions. In the era of revolutionary war when the enemy struck, suppressed, chased, wrecked, and
smashed our revolution all the time, each and every one of us was constantly ready and had a constantly
seething vigilance. Therefore, our stance of class struggle was hard and absolute. In the current era of
peace and in the future, when there are no physical enemies, whether American imperialists or other
imperialists, the feudalists-capitalists on suppression campaigns or overtly, brazenly causing hot wars,
and in conditions where material life and spirit are more happy and well-off than during the era of war
and keep on rising to one level after another, in conditions when we all live in happiness, we mostly forget
the enemy, get careless, are mostly relaxed in terms of organizational discipline in Party line and in the
various organizational characteristics of the Party, we mostly take the enemy lightly, and especially, we
hardly see the aphysical enemy in such times.

Then all these extremely poisonous aphysical enemies that attack our revolutionary stances and overthrow
them without us realizing it attack and overthrow us by peaceful means. This danger has occurred before
and is occurring now in a number of countries around the world that are revolutionary only in name, socialist
in name, but whose essential reality and stances have all become capitalist. Seeing this, in order that our
revolutionary youth be constantly vigilant, do not be frivolous, do not forget ourselves, do not be pacifist;
to the contrary, it is in this era of peace that we the revolutionary youth must be at our highest vigilance in
order to strengthen our stance of class struggle to be solid, absolute, and constant. We the revolutionary
youth used to have an absolute stance of class struggle, used to join with the worker-peasant people in
revolutionary struggle and defeated the American imperialists that are the biggest ring-leaders in the world
and who have innumerable modern weapons of all kinds, causing them to flee and scattered from Kamp
-uchea in the most humiliating way. Therefore, in the present new phase of revolution and in the future as
well, we the Kampuchean youth will certainly maintain these glorious and supreme traditions forever, and
we absolutely strengthen the stance of class struggle in order to achieve socialist revolution in Kampuchea
in total success and to advance on to communist revolution in Kampuchea.