... period under the Khmer Rouge. But one reason that has not been fully considered is this:Cambodia is the only country in the world ever to have abolished money. PolPot, the leader of the Khmer ... is the only country in the world ever to haveabolished money. The Khmer Rouge, when theycame to power on April 17, 1975, set out to impose the strictest Marxist doctrine yet implemented in the ... di-chotomy between the urban elite, who used coinsand other valuable objects, and the rural peasants,who traded rice. Like the other “dual economies” ofSoutheast Asia, Cambodia has traditionally...