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After setting out three main conceptions - neo-classical, reformist and Marxist - in respect of traditional small-holder agriculture and its prospects, the article inquires whether owner-operated small-holdings are giving way on a substantial scale to tenant farms or large estates, if the income gap is widening between landless labourers and small-holders, on the one hand, and richer farmers, on the other etc. in Thailand. What role politics can play, either in sustaining or undermining small-holder production, is discussed. (DÜI-Sen)

A decade after publication of a major work on world politics suggests an appropriate period for reassessment. Looking back, two obvious questions emerge. How original is Franz Schurmann's analysis? And how has it stood the test of time? The last question, depending on the first, will be discussed in my conclusion. The answer to the first question, however, is still clouded in controversy, as it was from the start. (I am considering only Schumann's interpretation-of American 'welfare imperialism' and how it is derived; not his informative but conventional depiction of American-Soviet-Chinese policies in relation to the Vietnam war.)

The concept of "culture" with the Italian Marxist and the relevance of this concept for an understanding of political and social change in Thailand. Gramsci's analysis of fascism in Italy and Girling's exploration of the bureaucratic polity in Thailand based on conceptual tools derived from Gramsci's analysis. The fiscal and administrative reorganization inaugurated by King Chulalongkorn at the end of the 19th century. Background of Marshal Sarit's coup of 1958. Socio-political development upto 1983