In his Prison Notebooks, Gramsci once describes the notion of ‘organic crisis’ as a historical situation in which ‘the old is dying, but the new cannot be born’. What is dying in the Thai historical bloc is the erosion of the sacredness of royalism-nationalism that centres on the monarchy, the growing demands of the subaltern for a fairer economy, and the increasing demand for protecting human rights and human dignity. In this situation, conservative social forces attempt to escape from the organic situation of the crisis of authority by enforcing the aggressive lèse majesté law towards the constructed ‘otherness’ who possess different ideologies and worldviews. In Gramscian theories, the area of ‘political society’, in which the state could operate its coercive practices, has a dialectical relationship with another theoretical terrain which is ‘civil society’ where hegemony is more crucial than force. Therefore, any political practices that might be operated in political society are definitely resonant with civil society at the same time. In the case of Thai politics, the forceful application of the juridico-political apparatus via the lèse majesté law has contributed to the politics within civil society in which there are growing of debates and greater critical awareness through several social institutions.