Page 66 - ฉบับ "ปรีดี บรรณานุสรณ์ 2561"

itself teaches that the ideal for which we are all striving
sacrif ced itself for humanity, and who would dare to gainsay
such a statement ?
When we have chosen the vocation in which we can
contribute most to humanity, burdens cannot bend us
because they are only sacrif ces for all. Then we experience
no meagre, limited, egotistic joy, but our happiness belongs to
millions, our deeds live on quietly but eternally ef ective, and
glowing tears of noble men will fall on our ashes. 3

Once his essay was submitted to his teacher, Mr. H.
Wyttenbach, it was considered and scored as ‘moderate’. The author
then realized that describing our life in texts is really easy but in real
life, it will be on the contrary.
The author is not certain if this German boy, the owner
of such essay, whose name was Karl Marx, had realized this. But
from the life of Mr. Pridi Banomyong, the author sees ref ection of
signif cant matter of the ending a student’s essay called Karl Marx.
His life also ref ects life that is challenged with many f ghts.
What did Mr. Pridi Banomyong f ght for?

I
Ordinary life (1900–1932)
The Search for Wisdom and Education
for the Motherland

Day of Birth

In former times, in the time that was once recognized
under the ancient ideology as ‘half the Buddhist Era’ (around the

3 David McLellan, Karl Marx: His Life and Thought (New York: Harper and Row,
1973), p. 14.

66 ปรีดีบรรณานุสรณ์ ๒๕๖๑