Underdevelopment in Cambodia by Khieu Samphan, provides an incisive analysis of Cambodia’s economic subjugation under colonial and neocolonial rule. It examines the structural distortions that left the country dependent on extractive agriculture and foreign-controlled trade networks, serving the interests of imperial powers rather than the Cambodian people. Samphan articulates how the revolutionary movement sought to dismantle these exploitative conditions, creating a self-sufficient, egalitarian economy based on collectivized production and national independence.