- May 4, 2021
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With the 2006 Financial Crash gripping the Russian Federation and the Gandhi Empire, it cast its long shadow towards Thailand as well. While protected in their non-convertible Labor Token system, the Thais were touched in their deep-rooted sense of unease as news crept in of crashed industries and bloated burdens in far-off lands. This far-off economic meltdown was quite bitter, a stark reminder of the frailty underlying the tumultuous nature of capitalism.
While reverberations of the Russian and Indian default did not break directly into the protective economic armor of Thailand, the nation was not far behind. In tones reminiscent of the great Lenin's perceptive words, the following spread quietly: the peasant Thai, secure in his cooperative, was no less inextricably linked with the world proletariat. His conflict, expressed in different terms, was precisely an international class conflict, one that had transcended geography to become an internationally justifiable cause.
Community Assemblies and councils of worker federations, in orderly Thai tradition, with peaceful resolve, conducted popular marches of solidarity across the Republic. In city central squares full of people, on village streets quietly somber, full of people, the air vibrated with socialist hymnals. Voices in union sang the ‘Internationale’ as well as the popular American hymn of ‘Solidarity Forever,’ not in protest or in complaint but in celebratory expression of cultural unity and shared belief. These expressions of solidarity were translated into vibrant public spaces.
Local communities, the backbone of Thailand's non-state public space, as well as civil society groups, were at the forefront in staging educational campaigns. Within public space as well as via people's broadcasts, they examined the intricacies of the international economic crisis based on the critical framework of socialist theory. In every commune, the socialist collective effort reasserted, the purity of Libertarian Marxism reasserted, and the empirical validity of scientific socialism retested in the face of global turmoil.
Throughout these protests, there rang out a cry that resonated deep within the 2003 Constitution: the cry for global social revolutionary action. Protesters envisioned a world where international cooperation on socialist values of mutual support and uncompromising solidarity would be substituted for capitalism's competitive, egotistical system of values. It was posed as the call for national unity, yet it was an emotive, impassioned reassertion of human history's drive for emancipation and a world founded on social peace.
While reverberations of the Russian and Indian default did not break directly into the protective economic armor of Thailand, the nation was not far behind. In tones reminiscent of the great Lenin's perceptive words, the following spread quietly: the peasant Thai, secure in his cooperative, was no less inextricably linked with the world proletariat. His conflict, expressed in different terms, was precisely an international class conflict, one that had transcended geography to become an internationally justifiable cause.
Community Assemblies and councils of worker federations, in orderly Thai tradition, with peaceful resolve, conducted popular marches of solidarity across the Republic. In city central squares full of people, on village streets quietly somber, full of people, the air vibrated with socialist hymnals. Voices in union sang the ‘Internationale’ as well as the popular American hymn of ‘Solidarity Forever,’ not in protest or in complaint but in celebratory expression of cultural unity and shared belief. These expressions of solidarity were translated into vibrant public spaces.
Local communities, the backbone of Thailand's non-state public space, as well as civil society groups, were at the forefront in staging educational campaigns. Within public space as well as via people's broadcasts, they examined the intricacies of the international economic crisis based on the critical framework of socialist theory. In every commune, the socialist collective effort reasserted, the purity of Libertarian Marxism reasserted, and the empirical validity of scientific socialism retested in the face of global turmoil.
Throughout these protests, there rang out a cry that resonated deep within the 2003 Constitution: the cry for global social revolutionary action. Protesters envisioned a world where international cooperation on socialist values of mutual support and uncompromising solidarity would be substituted for capitalism's competitive, egotistical system of values. It was posed as the call for national unity, yet it was an emotive, impassioned reassertion of human history's drive for emancipation and a world founded on social peace.
