The correct answer is: an extreme political ideology.
Indeed, the movement’s ideology was a very dogmatic blend of several ideologies and outlooks. They were heavily Stalinist and Maoist in their leftism; extremely xenophobic against both foreigners and national non-Khmer minorities and extremely agrarian.
With regards to their Stalinist/Maoist outlook they believed in absolute obedience to the party and its leaders, with a set of inviolable strict rules and laws and the belief that the ends justified any means.
They loathed national minorities as they saw them as a stain on their national Khmer purity and they despised foreigners because they refused to ever be colonized again, whether by Westerners or Asians.
They also considered that urban, capitalistic society was a disease and sought to eradicate it by eradicating its people.
From what I know of the book, it was a critical success but did not resonate with the public the way Sinclair wanted it to. The government took notice and tried to better regulate the meat industry. Working people, however, were not drawn to it the way had hoped.
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Significance. The barbarian kingdoms marked the transition from Late Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages in the 6th and 7th centuries, gradually replacing the Roman system of government on the lands of the Western Roman Empire, notably in the two western prefectures of Gaul and Italy.
I belived they learn what went wrong with another place and tried to fix its errors
