Party of Democratic Kampuchea

Party of Democratic Kampuchea

គណបក្សកម្ពុជាប្រជាធិបតេយ្យ
Party of Democratic Kampuchea គណបក្សកម្ពុជាប្រជាធិបតេយ្យ
Abbreviation	PDK
General Secretary	Pol Pot (1981–1985); Khieu Samphan (1985–1993);
Spokesperson	Khieu Samphan
Founded	December 1981
Banned	July 1994
Preceded by	Communist Party of Kampuchea
Succeeded by	Cambodian National Unity Party
Headquarters	Phnom Penh (de jure)
Military wing	National Army of Democratic Kampuchea
Ideology	Marxism–Leninism (claimed renunciation; debated); Agrarian socialism; Khmer ultranationalism; Anti-Vietnamese sentiment; Democratic socialism (self‑claimed);
National affiliation	Patriotic and Democratic Front of the Great National Union of Kampuchea
Slogan	"National Independence, Democracy, and Socialism"
Party flag
	Politics of Cambodia; Political parties; Elections;

The Party of Democratic Kampuchea was a political party in Cambodia, formed as a continuation of the Communist Party of Kampuchea in December 1981. In the mid-1980s, it publicly claimed that its ideology was "a new form of democratic socialism", having ostensibly renounced Marxism–Leninism.