 For more videos and people's struggles, please subscribe to our YouTube channel. The monarchy itself can't actually control the military. It's the other way around. It's the military that used the monarchy. It's the conservative elites that used the monarchy. Now, in order to understand this, you can see pictures of top military generals, including the present military dictator in Thailand, despite the fact that he claims to have been elected, although the elections were for false elections. You can see pictures of them groveling on the ground in front of the present king, almost as though they are servants of this king. Now, I think you have to always be a Marxist to actually understand what's going on. It's the play act. It's basically the military and the elites foster this view that the monarchy, the king, is some all-powerful god-like figure. The reason they do that is to put the fear of this god-like figure in the minds of ordinary people, and they have been successful over the years in doing this. Of course, monarchy is a very symbolic, not just in Thailand, but even in places like Britain and Sweden and other places, because they represent the idea that it's natural, supposedly natural, for some people to be born low and some people to be born high, and you need to know your place in society. But this has been shaken. It's been shaken by the struggles that have broken out over the last few months. It's also been shaken by the behavior, the reality of the present king. We've seen unprecedented criticism in public of the present king and the way he is trying to amass wealth through changing the constitution and the way he spends his time in Germany with his harem and so on. And his total disregard for ordinary people. The military depends on this image of the royal family and so on in order to legitimize their authoritarian rule. So in summary, I would say that if you're looking at the military and the monarchy, the military is the main power base. They have the weapons. They have the armed forces and so on. And the monarchy is a bit like the fairy on top of a Christmas tree. It's symbolic, but very strongly symbolic so that it was symbolic enough to get people to actually feel fear or love or whatever or respect for the monarchy in the past.