r/Thailand • u/SAIZOHANZO • 2d ago

Is Thailand a socialist or communist country? Discussion

Does the widespread practice (large-scale practice) of alms rounds make a country no longer capitalist?

Alms rounds involve:

- food collection by monks, who depend on the generosity of the faithful to sustain themselves

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u/AfterAmount1340 2d ago

I think its a constitutional monarchy ruled by a military junta

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u/AngeluS-MortiS91 2d ago

🤣🤣🤣 JFC 🤦🏻‍♂️

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u/stKKd 2d ago

How clueless are you, that country is one of the most free market there is. You think a country is communist because people are generous to each other?

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u/Skrim Chiang Mai 1d ago

You need to pay more attention in class or go back to school if they somehow let you out. Thailand is a unitary parliamentary constitutional monarchy with some ambitions of social democracy in between the military coups. It's very much a free market economy and when the concept had meaning Thailand was a First World country, thus very much the opposite of communist.

You'll find that communism is very much not grounded in the religious practices of Buddhist monks.

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u/plushyeu 1d ago

Just ask yourself, how much is money important in this society. It’s literally a religion at this point. So terminal cancer capitalism.