notes and study aids on Myanmar language

Wednesday 7 September 2011

History of Myanmar's labour movement (40/505)



This post presents page 40 of The History of the Myanmar Labour Movement by Thakin Lwin (Bagan Books, 1968).



Vocabulary:

တီထွင် ။ to invent
လှုံ့ဆော် ။ stimulate; exhort; egg sb on
စိတ်ကူးယဉ် ။ indulge in fantasy; fictional; fanciful
သက်သက် ။ just, only
ကြာရှည်တည်တံ့ ။ sustainable
အယူအဆ ။ opinion; view; interpretation
လူတန်းစားအသိ ။ class consciousness
သေနင်္ဂဗျူဟာ ။ art of war
နည်းပရိယာယ် ။ tactics; modus operandi; mode or method of operation
ကျွမ်းကျင် ။ to be skilled at
ကြွေးကြော် ။ to proclaim, shout loudly
ရှေ့ဆောင် ။ to lead
တင်သွင်း ။ submit; propose; introduce
ထိတ်လန့် ။ be alarmed, terrified, frightened

Translation:

Some people who [wished for the benefit of workers] had a compassionate goal to replace the capitalist system with another new system. These people included Robert Owen from England, Saint Simon and Charles Fourier from France, Watleon and Crispe from Germany, and Bakunin from Russia. And these people invented different system of, and agitated and advocated for, socialist ideology. Insofar as their socialist ideological perspectives were only utopian, they were unsustainable. The person who begin inventing scientific socialist ideology compounded with principle and practicality was a German national named Karl Marx. In whatever way, each and every socialist ideological perspective of that era had lesser or more influence on the desire of the working masses to escape from under the capitalist system.

According to Karl Marx's ideology, basically the working class's primary duty is to take political power and the workers of the whole world are to be united with the class consciousness of the oppressed class and to have solidarity like intimate siblings and to skillfully overcome the problems of warfare and tactics related to social revolution for the liberation of their life. And his proclamation was "Workers of the world unite!"

Karl Marx firstly lead the collective struggle with the solidarity of the workers of the world. One piece of evidence is the historical Manifesto of the Communist Party which Marx and Fredrick Engels jointly submitted at the conference of the Communist League held in England in 1847. That manifesto caused much terror within the capitalist administration...

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