THAI CONSTITUTION May 30, 1992 No. 22-.
No left winger It is unclear whether organised left wing forces have been involved in the revolt against military rule. Obviously Chamlong is nothing like left wing himself.
Although personally an ascetic, he represents the middle class which is mired in corruption and hungry for a Indeed, the fight against military rule is precisely a campaign by the urban well-to-do to implant themselves in the power-structures, and against the nonopoly of power by the officers of the military academy's Class 5' The social forces set in motion howNever go way beyond the political leaderships fighting for power. The tragedy in the present situation is that after the debacle of the CPT, there is no viable nass left wing party apable of challenging for power. But the destabilisation of the rule of the officers tions for the creation of such a mass working class force. WELL-KNOWN Russian socialist activist Boris Kagarlitsky used the opportunity of a guest column in the 7 May edition of Pravda to launch an all-out assault on the folly of attempting to privatise the Kagaritsky argues that th ex-USSR s slipping int the economic reforms are too wrecking planning and the col Advances He says, 'itis possible to think that by destroying state foundations for a new, more ad vanced method of production (sounds familar doesn't 4?). But this is not so.
The sinhure of laran-scale production in the ex-USSR is such that it wittingly presup poses state ownership. That is how & was created. Forms of inked with the organisation of production, and at times even with the technologies that are used.
Civilisation
It is impossible to divide the private enterprises without debanding it. But having disbanded industry and the major agro-insible to avoid undermining the very foundations of moder industrial civilisation, the founda. fons of any modern development, be it caoralist or socialist.
Kagaritsky says that the term wreckers' for those pro-capitalist economic reforms is a deliberato preparation future repression. And he denounces efforts to establish "collectives which involve the workers in co-operatives, the better to blame them for future falures.
Turning to the fate of agriculture, Kagarlitsky notes that in the this has pressited apaca this catastrophic decline of produc son, not an increase or new prosperity for private farmers.
Capitulation
Gorbachev and Yeltsin, says Kagarlitsky, have carried out a shameful capitulation to world capitalism - and are portraying i as a victory As for the accusation that leftwink opponents of privatusaton and capitalism are conservative elements and 'enemies of democracy. Kagarlitsky says those who use such insults agatist curets are resy bang them against themselves.
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