In response to: Do not use the grass roots for political ends

eumu2 [Member] — Mon, 27 Dec 2010 05:27:56 +0000

Let me first make a general remark about the tone of this opinion which is titled as "Do not use the grass roots for political ends. It sounds very much like an idealistic dreamer who would turn an idealist as soon as he or she holds the pen, but on the streets of Bangkok the peroson will represent the constituted subjectivity of the status quo. Becuae if you mean the threadbare maxim, "the end justifies the means," by your "poltical ends" and this is why you are agaisnt using the grass roots for the politcal ends,and if so no one would so much feel frustrating about what is going on in Thai polictics, which is as we know at the apogee of the moral issue. Not just you are not suggesting any kind of replace with the aim of the grass rooots movement, but you even bring into a more problematic thesis "The left's political dream", perhaps in the spirt of "the dream of an existence without shame" which for you not only exists in Bangkok and every reader ought to know what it means.

So I am lost and I must beg you for your definition of the political left. But the fact of the matter is your assertion makes even more frustrated at the practical level on the ground of real political situation in Bangkok,where every single idea would be yet free from political thought, just as there is hardly any commodity in Bangkok, that is free from exchange value: freedom as such will be restored by the Thai grassroots movement?

Well, you yourself said in the following quotation:
"For Krarok Pongnoi, a grass-roots activist in Prachuap Khiri Khan,
the people's real enemy is the economic development model which robs
the poor of their natural resources to fatten the rich. The lefts'
political dreams will not improve the locals' lot if the new power
groups still pursue top-down control and money-driven development, she
insists."
Yes, there is a reason why I quote this particular lines of your thoughtful sentence, and because it is rich in suggestions; the grassroots movement as the latest UDD protest indicates presupposes the dictatorial minority in Thailand, just as a democratic movment aimed at the changes from the bottom up against those from the top down, if you like, the people's power against the autocratic forces. It is, if I may, in this sense that you associated your "lefts' political dreams with, which by virtue of context, you meant the on-going the red shirted protesters' movement. Just the same, by the implication, may I say that you are one of supporters of the Abhisit regime,which will never attempt in public to extinguish the guilt, the corrupt background of constituted subjectivity, which has killed the innocent peasants 91 lives during their 9 week protest in the year of the Tiger? for more www.nonintellectdyun.wordpress.com

In response to: Do not use the grass roots for political ends

spiceman [Member] — Mon, 27 Dec 2010 02:35:18 +0000

Khun Sanitsuda, Come-on, this is what politics is all about, a Class Warfare, of pitching one group (have not) against another group of people (have). Or Robbing Peter to pay Paul!

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