Marxist Group Small But Big On Ideas

[rakman]

Communism looks like it may be on life support in Thailand. The Thai elites better marshall up the forces of the Village Scouts again and get them into action to defend against a communist threat.

What do you think the Mrs. Thida, leader of the red shirts is?

What their followers will get:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redshirt_%28character%29

[canuckamuck]

If they were successful Thailand would be the first Democratic Marxist Feudal state... That would be interesting.

[ianf]

Are they red shirts?

Sounds like Jehovah's Witnesses to me. They have to read a magazine too. Such is the nature of propaganda..........

[Morakot]

The group has only 10 active members

there are close to a thousand supporters of the group

Each member has about 100 supporters who can't be bothered to join the group!

[Om85]

Is not difficult to understand why they think as they do, the problem is not the economy, is not the people, the problem is the system, I am a marxist myself and a humanist, but I am not communist, I believe in freedom of speech, and in all the freedoms, but those who think that communism is dead, they are fooling themselves.

It's not possible to have Marxism AND freedom, so you'll have to drop one of them.

Who told you that, Marxism and Communism is not the same.

Is that why, in the Preamble to the Communist Manifesto, Marx says: 'It is high time that Communists should openly, in the face of the whole world, publish their views, their aims, their tendencies, and meet this nursery tale of the Spectre of Communism with a manifesto of the party itself.'

Whe he said that I don't think that the kind of communism that he was talking about was the ones that we have know, communism is the final stage, before that we must past through socialism .

[Om85]

Agree with you, Communism has proven not to be the answer , neither capitalism and it concept of "democracy" which is just an illusion, I think that the problem with communism is that it has been imposed by force, I believe in talking to people and show them that a better world is possible, a world in which people can have the same opportunities to develop their potential, not a world based on exploitation and consumerism, a world in which people and not profits are the most important thing.

Capitalism has nothing to do with democracy. Also what we have now is not 'true' capitalism, not even close. All capitalism really is is the acceptance of property rights, which creates an incentive for people to work and leads to society gaining more material wealth (which in turn generally leads to greater happiness, although it is only a part of it).

Communism is not achieved by a cosy little chat. Democracy may be bourgeois democratic but it has proved to be the most durable to date.

Of course is not, but neither Democracy, in fact you don't know what democracy is, neither I, cuz it have never existed , well maybe in some less developed societies.

[Skywalker69]

Great, just what Thailand needs, what's next Thai Fascists?

Forgot, there is already one group dressed in brown in Thailand, and they behave very similar to the fascists.

[yoshiwara]

When he said that I don't think that the kind of communism that he was talking about was the ones that we have know, communism is the final stage, before that we must past through socialism .

Yeah right. he should have named the Communist manifesto the Socialist Manifesto. Those who call themselves socialists are rarely that. Usually just reformists who like to wear a red shirt.

Maybe the 10 members of the Thai group and you. Just a lifestyle affectation mostly nowadays.