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Samai is getting clean and, as such, takes the reigns as we once again revisit Plerng Phue Chiwit, Music for Life, Art for Life and Socialist Realism for the upteenth time. It's a good one though, really. This is kind of a part 2 for episode 46 Trap and Thalugaz. www.dindeng.com

The Kongsi - Chinese Secret Societies and The Kongsi Republics of Western Borneo. We're joined by Yvonne Tan of Jentayu to talk about them. Pretty cool no? https://pusatsejarahrakyat.org/events/psr-webinar-narrating-the-chinese-kongsi-unraveling-the-moral-economy-in-overseas-chinese-communities-during-colonial-expansion/

We met Thaksin. For real. We bring out friend Ton on to talk about it, also Ton went to jail recently so we chatted about that too.

This one is for the real Thai deep politics pilled heads only to be honest. If you're not that, maybe give it a skip sorry. We talk about the Thai left and the Thai Left. I know right. https://www.samudra.dindeng.com/the-big-left/

He's back. We're back. He's been busy, we've been busy. We talk about village medicine. https://www.samudra.dindeng.com/post-colonial-medicine/

Forest fires, the call of the mountain, more flak and the future. https://dindeng.com/power-for-peasants-en/⁠ - All music we used can be found in this playlist. ⁠https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3E6imAcIOd2AjxZ3wgE1AA?si=61945fc24c124820⁠

Welcome to mythbusters, where we're busting myths. Sugarcane, rice, slash and burn, crossborder smoke. B-b-b-busted. Hotspot readings: 22/04/2024 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jee2Qqb_gB09U0D87jf-HhU0JCUMjNwJ/view?usp=sharing https://dindeng.com/power-for-peasants-en/ - All music we used can be found in this playlist. https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3E6imAcIOd2AjxZ3wgE1AA?si=61945fc24c124...

Every year, for 2-3 months the entire Northern region of Thailand, as well as large areas of Laos and Burma, suffocate under smoke. This annual climate apocalypse is a relatively new phenomenon, beginning around 20 years ago and rapidly increasing in intensity. The cause, in our opinion, is a conspiracy. This conspiracy is a product of a decades-long interplay between state and capital, the birthi...

War is over. Let us usher in the golden age of Thai capitalism and bring our series to a close as we explore counterinsurgency in peacetime, finally answering the questions we asked at the beginning of the series and contending with what counterinsurgency programs look like today. https://dindeng.com/power-for-peasants-en/ - All music we used can be found in this playlist. https://open.spotify.com...

We’re going way back, to the first episode on critiquing colonial forestry practices, and witnessing how they were adapted to serve as a release valve for the socio-economic tensions building up in the Thai state, as a means of counterinsurgency. Or, we could even say enclosure as a means of counterinsurgency. - All music we used can be found in this playlist. https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3E6...

For this episode we're going to do something a little different. The past few have been very heavy on the critical history, with little in the way of anecdotes or personal experience. So, we thought talking about our time with the Maniq could act as a little break, while also intersecting with many of the currents we’ve been following throughout the series. That is to say, the life of illegall...

In the last episode, we focused on the brutality of the Thai para-political, and para-military apparatuses, generally speaking, we can call that the stick. Today we will also be looking more deeply into the carrot of counterinsurgency. That is to say, the social services, state welfare and rural development infrastructure programs that were written by western academics to be dangled in one hand, w...

The peasants rise again, though they are no longer confined to the local province, but spread throughout the entire nation, as a national peasant class consciousness is shaped and formed in opposition to both the bourgeoise reformists in parliament and the demented bloodthirsty military. But lest we forget what the purpose of our investigation is, for this series. That of counter-insurgency. As su...

Or: How The Reactionary State & Capital Couped The Common Forest We witness more revolts and examine the Siamese state's response. We follow the development of the dual architecture of state and capital as a means of labour extraction. That is to say, the mechanisms by which the Thai state developed into the neo-mandala system that we still see today.  - All music we used can be found in t...

Or: How The Reactionary State & Capital Couped The Common Forest We begin our investigation by laying the foundations of our enquiry. We explore the deep roots of imperial forestry practices as the earliest days of enclosure of the common forest and witness the birth of the first armed forest insurgency in Siam. - All music we used can be found in this playlist. https://open.spotify.com/playli...

Counterinsurgency. Or: How The Reactionary State & Capital Couped The Common Forest At the turn of the 20th century, capital utilised the state to enforce a program of counterinsurgency. This program had two targets:  Target 1. Communism.  Target 2. Anything else antithetical to market relations, be it natural farmers, or peasants utilising common forest land. Both are targets, which are inext...

The Communist Party Thailand gets KMT'd. Khun Sa gets kicked out of Thailand-- hijinks ensue. The Communist Party Burma go to shit. The CIA moves to Colombia. Opium moves to Afghanistan. Cornfields erupt in the hills and a handful of guys make meth. We will be back with a new series on counterinsurgency either next week or the week after. www.dindeng.com

The Communist Party Burma explodes in Shan State. Khun Sa goes large. The DEA get gaslight. We hit peak opium.

It's finally the CIA episode. Featuring: Missionaries, Chiang Mai Zoo, Wild Bill Donovan, Sarit, Air America, Corsican mafias, Frank Lucas, more missionaries and a whole lot of dope. p.s we found a lot more on Donovan's time in Thailand since recording, which we covererd in the next series www.dindeng.com

We witness the explosion of revolutionary civil war in Burma, chart the early days of The Opium King and the royal narco generals in Laos, as well as keep up with the KMT. www.dindeng.com

We begin our series on The Golden Triangle by examining the forested hills that Western academics have dubbed Zomia. We brace ourselves for the tsunami of the Kuomintang invasion and take a walk through the blooming poppy fields. www.dindeng.com All the songs we use are in this playlist: ⁠https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3E6imAcIOd2AjxZ3wgE1AA?si=bz_XlenSR-ypmY7YUcDZhw&pi=LWeMUia3SaqJ0 Books:...

Hi hello. It's DinDeng. A little explainer. www.dindeng.com

**Hello listeners. We are so sorry. But we have had to remove this whole series due to copyright reasons. Please do not worry. We will endeavour to get it back up soon. This series is also being developed into a book which will be released in 2025. Maybe you can just buy it then. Thank you listeners. Bye bye** We are haunted by the ghosts of past struggles. Translations: Jok - Rice Porridge Sala -...

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