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2007 State of the Revolution Address
Official Transcript of Rotating Coordinator Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit
Televised National Address through the National Broadcasting Service
Friday, 21 December 2007
Televised National Address through the National Broadcasting Service
Friday, 21 December 2007
“Comrades,
We are approaching a new year on the calendar. It’s a time for celebration. Many people throughout the world have long upheld this tradition of the New Year holiday to spend time with their families, loved ones, or in solitude. However, as we near the end of 2007, I question what material and historical reasons necessitated such a custom. In our confederation, the people enjoy fewer work hours because technology allows it. Private property does not exist for the bourgeoisie to extract surplus value from our continued wage slavery. Tragically, many proletarians outside this confederation need the New Year holiday as an opium that keeps them sane in a heartless world. They would return to work, being exploited, to keep meals on their dining tables.
As we march toward the great horizon of Communism as a society, this confederation’s population is a class-for-itself of the global proletariat. We cannot isolate our revolution’s success without eventually crumbling to the threat of international capital. The working class has no country, and we must liberate our fellow workers from the clutches of late-stage capitalism. One of the most pressing issues of our time is the colonization of free time, love, and imagination by the market. We must fight the manufactured socialization that the end of the world continues with capitalism. This confederation proves that the narrative is wrong and deceptive.
Decentralized, democratic planning has brought stability and progress to our population. The digitalization of the economy, administration, and society is a tremendous success that many capitalist states are replicating. We proved that the failure of past communist states came not from socialism. Instead, it resulted from the top-down, bureaucratic nature of the dictatorial one-party rule. True socialism is bottom-up, and never compromises with market mechanisms or allows privileged vanguards to lead a revolution. The emancipation of the working class must be the act of the working class itself.
Once again, we reiterate our ultimate vision of a world socialist revolution. The crisis of capitalism is not only economic but also ecological, psychological, and cultural. This confederation is building a liberatory society that reunites humankind with nature. We are ending centuries of gendered separation brought about by colonization and mercantilism. The world we fight for is a world where we wake up to work not for survival but because of free will and creative expression. The bourgeoisie has no right to keep housing costs high while people live hand-to-mouth. The proletariat is better off without the capitalists and employers who rely on our alienated labor.
This confederation has a clear enemy, the international bourgeoisie. We neither disdain the conservatives for believing that the left is destroying their culture nor the progressives for focusing on identity politics because discrimination is real. However, the true conflict is not between the left and the right. Sexual liberation, cultural preservation, and ecological conservation are not secondary to the class struggle. They are part of the same fight for complete human emancipation. We cannot free ourselves by coating our cage gilded. Anticapitalism is necessary if we want a systemic and structural change. The proletariat must overcome false consciousness through cultural counter-hegemony and organized resistance.
As the Rotating Coordinator, I have important news to deliver on behalf of this confederation. For long enough, the previous administration has compromised with the imperialist and liberal-progressive governments to ensure our survival. However, that policy is no longer necessary. The people speak for substantive proletarian internationalism. Thailand is not a nation-state that has any reasonable justification for the competitive accumulation of arms. The real power lies in the proletariat’s hands. Class solidarity and collective action are our weapons against the oppressor’s subjugation. This confederation’s allies are not states but the international working class that has nothing to lose.
From the hideous mistreatment of Korean idols and Bengal sweat factory workers to the exploitation of Congo miners and Western office workers, we stand with the oppressed. The workers must unionize, strike together, and demand a better future. The youth and the elderly are also part of this struggle against class society. You have more in common with your colleagues than with your employers. Patriarchy oppresses women and sexual and gender minorities as much as it represses men because of private property. The cultural divide is merely a social construct created by the system, and the ruling class maintains it.
I deliver this address not as a bureaucratic necessity but for ideological clarity. As a representative of this confederation, we are not afraid of those who fear democracy as a way of life. The people are not stupid, but the ruling class has indoctrinated their minds. A war of maneuver is won only after a war of position has succeeded. Whether you call it communism or not, people throughout history always desired a peaceful and equal society. Our dream of a global classless, stateless, moneyless, and emancipatory society can only come from the agents of history, the working class. We will not settle for anything less than a world without prejudice, exploitation, and coercion.
To the international working class, join the Thai proletariat in our pursuit of freedom, justice, equality, and solidarity. We as a class have never threatened capitalism this gravely since the 1917 October Revolution. The Communists everywhere support every revolutionary movement against the existing social and political order of things. In all these movements, they bring to the front, as the leading question in each, the property question, no matter what its degree of development at the time. Finally, they labor everywhere for the union and agreement of the democratic parties of all countries.
The Communists disdain to conceal their views and aims. We openly declare that our ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions. Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communist revolution. We have nothing to lose but our chains. We have a world to win.
Workers of the world, unite!”
We are approaching a new year on the calendar. It’s a time for celebration. Many people throughout the world have long upheld this tradition of the New Year holiday to spend time with their families, loved ones, or in solitude. However, as we near the end of 2007, I question what material and historical reasons necessitated such a custom. In our confederation, the people enjoy fewer work hours because technology allows it. Private property does not exist for the bourgeoisie to extract surplus value from our continued wage slavery. Tragically, many proletarians outside this confederation need the New Year holiday as an opium that keeps them sane in a heartless world. They would return to work, being exploited, to keep meals on their dining tables.
As we march toward the great horizon of Communism as a society, this confederation’s population is a class-for-itself of the global proletariat. We cannot isolate our revolution’s success without eventually crumbling to the threat of international capital. The working class has no country, and we must liberate our fellow workers from the clutches of late-stage capitalism. One of the most pressing issues of our time is the colonization of free time, love, and imagination by the market. We must fight the manufactured socialization that the end of the world continues with capitalism. This confederation proves that the narrative is wrong and deceptive.
Decentralized, democratic planning has brought stability and progress to our population. The digitalization of the economy, administration, and society is a tremendous success that many capitalist states are replicating. We proved that the failure of past communist states came not from socialism. Instead, it resulted from the top-down, bureaucratic nature of the dictatorial one-party rule. True socialism is bottom-up, and never compromises with market mechanisms or allows privileged vanguards to lead a revolution. The emancipation of the working class must be the act of the working class itself.
Once again, we reiterate our ultimate vision of a world socialist revolution. The crisis of capitalism is not only economic but also ecological, psychological, and cultural. This confederation is building a liberatory society that reunites humankind with nature. We are ending centuries of gendered separation brought about by colonization and mercantilism. The world we fight for is a world where we wake up to work not for survival but because of free will and creative expression. The bourgeoisie has no right to keep housing costs high while people live hand-to-mouth. The proletariat is better off without the capitalists and employers who rely on our alienated labor.
This confederation has a clear enemy, the international bourgeoisie. We neither disdain the conservatives for believing that the left is destroying their culture nor the progressives for focusing on identity politics because discrimination is real. However, the true conflict is not between the left and the right. Sexual liberation, cultural preservation, and ecological conservation are not secondary to the class struggle. They are part of the same fight for complete human emancipation. We cannot free ourselves by coating our cage gilded. Anticapitalism is necessary if we want a systemic and structural change. The proletariat must overcome false consciousness through cultural counter-hegemony and organized resistance.
As the Rotating Coordinator, I have important news to deliver on behalf of this confederation. For long enough, the previous administration has compromised with the imperialist and liberal-progressive governments to ensure our survival. However, that policy is no longer necessary. The people speak for substantive proletarian internationalism. Thailand is not a nation-state that has any reasonable justification for the competitive accumulation of arms. The real power lies in the proletariat’s hands. Class solidarity and collective action are our weapons against the oppressor’s subjugation. This confederation’s allies are not states but the international working class that has nothing to lose.
From the hideous mistreatment of Korean idols and Bengal sweat factory workers to the exploitation of Congo miners and Western office workers, we stand with the oppressed. The workers must unionize, strike together, and demand a better future. The youth and the elderly are also part of this struggle against class society. You have more in common with your colleagues than with your employers. Patriarchy oppresses women and sexual and gender minorities as much as it represses men because of private property. The cultural divide is merely a social construct created by the system, and the ruling class maintains it.
I deliver this address not as a bureaucratic necessity but for ideological clarity. As a representative of this confederation, we are not afraid of those who fear democracy as a way of life. The people are not stupid, but the ruling class has indoctrinated their minds. A war of maneuver is won only after a war of position has succeeded. Whether you call it communism or not, people throughout history always desired a peaceful and equal society. Our dream of a global classless, stateless, moneyless, and emancipatory society can only come from the agents of history, the working class. We will not settle for anything less than a world without prejudice, exploitation, and coercion.
To the international working class, join the Thai proletariat in our pursuit of freedom, justice, equality, and solidarity. We as a class have never threatened capitalism this gravely since the 1917 October Revolution. The Communists everywhere support every revolutionary movement against the existing social and political order of things. In all these movements, they bring to the front, as the leading question in each, the property question, no matter what its degree of development at the time. Finally, they labor everywhere for the union and agreement of the democratic parties of all countries.
The Communists disdain to conceal their views and aims. We openly declare that our ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions. Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communist revolution. We have nothing to lose but our chains. We have a world to win.
Workers of the world, unite!”
