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The Social Democratic Party was a
political party A political party is an organization that coordinates candidates to compete in a particular country's elections. It is common for the members of a party to hold similar ideas about politics, and parties may promote specific political ideology ...
in
Thailand Thailand ( ), historically known as Siam () and officially the Kingdom of Thailand, is a country in Southeast Asia, located at the centre of the Indochinese Peninsula, spanning , with a population of almost 70 million. The country is bo ...
, which emerged during the 1950s. The party was led Suthep Sutchakhun. The party called for economic justice, on the basis of political democracy. Suthep sought to combine
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and
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ideas, and the party was void of
Marxist Marxism is a Left-wing politics, left-wing to Far-left politics, far-left method of socioeconomic analysis that uses a Materialism, materialist interpretation of historical development, better known as historical materialism, to understand S ...
influence and did not elaborate on theories of class.http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/view/B31950206/ft.pdf


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