From constitutional democracy to peoples' democracy.

All these showed that under the impact of the rapidly changing world situation, the Thai students, through their social practices, had witnessed drastic changes in their thinking. At last, they had searched the direction of their student movement. They have summarised that feudalism and imperialism were The main foes that oppressed and exploited the Thai people most. Only after these two foes were eliminated, then the Thai people could have genuine independence and democracy. Yet how could imperialism be defeated? How could national self-determination be achieved? The answer lies in the strength of the workers and peasants who constituted more than 90% of the population. The aim could only be achieved by combining with the revolutionary strength of workers and peasants. Going to the countryside meant not to educate the peasants but instead to receive education from them, to understand the conditions of the majority exploited in this class society to nurture a feeling towards them.

The corruption and degeneration in parliamentary politics shattered the dream of the Thai students in Western style of democracy. What Thailand needed was not the kind of parliamentary democracy in a mere scrap of paper, but genuine people's democracy in the hands of those who stood for the interest of the majority. To fight for people's democracy, the strength of the workers and peasants was needed.

The Thai student movement was heading in this direction because the Thai student movement was closely linked with the destiny of the whole nation. In the process of development, the Thai students, under the impact of progressive ideas, have come to understand more and more the significance of genuine national independence and liberation. Now and then they analysed the contradictions in Thai society, summarized the direction of the Thai people's movement and tried their best to integrate their furture with the destiny of the whole nation.