Predator by Ed Brisson Vol. 2 by Ed Brisson

Predator by Ed Brisson Vol. 2 by Ed Brisson

Pribble investigates the barter economies that developed in many of the labor camps established under the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia.

When the Khmer Rouge abolished currency and markets in 1975, starving Cambodians created underground exchanges in labor camps throughout the country, bartering luxury items for food and other necessities, while simultaneously undermining the regime's ideological goals of eliminating any traces of capitalism in Democratic Kampuchea. Pribble asserts three key points about the barter economy in the Khmer Rouge labor camps. First, the underground exchanges in Democratic Kampuchea provided food and medicine for desperate people subsisting under a totalitarian regime, saving the lives of countless Cambodians. Second, bartering was the riskiest way to obtain food because it was dependent upon the discretion of two or more individuals from different social classes under the threat of violent punishment, thereby altering the social dynamics of the camps. Finally, despite the regime's extreme efforts to eliminate foreign influence from the country and impose communist ideology on millions of citizens, basic forms of market capitalism and a demand for superfluous luxury goods persisted in labor camps throughout the country.

A fascinating study of the human consequences of imposing rigid ideology, that will be of particular interest to scholars and students of political history and Southeast Asian history.

The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

Jim Zub is a writer, artist and art instructor based in Toronto, Canada. Over the past fifteen years he's worked for a diverse array of publishing, movie and video game clients including Marvel, DC Comics, Capcom, Hasbro, Cartoon Network, and Bandai-Namco. He juggles his time between being a freelance comic writer and Program Coordinator for Seneca College's award-winning Animation program. His current comic projects include Dungeons & Dragons, a new series celebrating 40 years of the classic tabletop RPG, Thunderbolts, the return of Marvel's villainous superhero team, and Wayward, a modern supernatural story about teens fighting Japanese mythological monsters.

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ISBN 13	9781302926205
ISBN 10	1302926209
Titel	Predator by Ed Brisson Vol. 2
Autor	Ed Brisson
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Marvel Comics
Erscheinungsjahr	2023-10-24
Seitenanzahl	120
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