Abstract:
"Communist" and "Communism" are the two terms which have been known and continually discussed for more than half a century. Thailand has been suffering heavy losses resulting from the communist movements with its purpose of taking over the power of the state and also from the government's attempts to prevent and eliminate these movements. The goal of this thesis is to study this topic : the communist Movement and the Preventive and Suppressive policies of the Thai government, (1975-1980) Such ideologies or trends of thought as those originated by Marx, Lenin and Mao Tse Tung together with the international conflicts and those arisen within the party itself are also taken into consideration. It is found, as a result of this study, that the communist movement in Thailand have been inspired by the communist parties from the outside of the country rather than by its own people's wish or faith in communism. Thus, the trend of its movement follows in the footsteps of the communist parties in other countries, especially that of China. In the attempts to remold the patterns of the Thai society, The communist movements have been mostly unsuccessful. Apart from the already stated reason that the communists in Thailand lack originality, this is also because the conditions of the Thai society and the Chinese one differ greatly. That is why the Chinese revolutionary trend, when applied to the Thai society, ended in failure. As for the government's prevention and elimination measures where communism is concerned, actions have incessantly been taken in compliance with the occasional changes in the government's policy. It is also found that problems increase where violence is brought into use. The last part of this study centers upon the stagnation which the communists in Thailand had suffered. This is caused by the government's policy to give higher priority to polities than to militarism in order to comply with the international and internal conflicts of the party itself. The lack of support from the communist parties in other countries, however, is the most important cause of this condition.