The Four-Year Plan to Build Socialism in All Fields (1977–1980) is perhaps the most audacious and illuminating economic document of Democratic Kampuchea. Unlike the hesitant reformism of other postcolonial states, Kampuchea launched an immediate leap into socialist transformation, rejecting the typical three-to-five-year stabilization periods advised by gradualist revisionist regimes. With over 2.4 million hectares of rice fields in operation, the Plan targeted 1.42 million hectares for yearly harvest and the strategic cultivation of high-grade Number One rice fields, yielding up to seven tons per hectare. Prioritizing complete independence, Kampuchea refused dependency on Soviet or Vietnamese aid, instead framing rice as the “capital base” for industrialization through internal surplus. The document exposes the raw confidence of the revolution—pursuing mastery over nature, society, and production while resisting foreign entanglements and proving that socialism could be built not through handouts, but through political clarity, mass mobilization, and collective labor.