How come Japan is so virulently anti-socialist and is one of the worst places to be a worker?
I understand it has an active Communist party, but I'd rather work in the States than in Japan, it sounds like pure hell from a socialist point of view.
Will there be a point when the Japanese populace realize they don't have to work to death to get by?
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Because America after World War 2
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70 years of Capitalist Propaganda
Strong imperialist Ideology.
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Yet, lately there is a rise, because of long stagnation, government lies and so on.
It's called honour and self-discipline, but of course commie scum such as yourself would never understand these concepts nor their importance for a strong, traditional, and ancient culture like Japan's.
Seppuku yourself, my man.
That's a funny way to spell submission and slave mentality.
Will there come a point where the Americans realize that burgers are bad for their health?
Will there come a point where the Germans boycott beer?
Will there come a point where Slavs stop squatting?
Will there come a point where the Brits have good teeth?
Japan has a strong Satanic underpinning, so it'll be hard for you people to undermine them
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They had an urban guerrilla movement (some Red Army name derivative) from about the late 70s to a decade ago.
Well know that they have the largest communist party membership for any country that never had a communist regime.
I'd say it's more left than people give it credit for.
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Seems like satanism is dying in japan ;^)
Wont be for long. Communism has already lost. The forces of Satan merely need to make the final push before your kind is ejected from human society entirely.
Just a week ago I was told we were the satanic ones.
Too bad. Satanic communism sounds pretty metal.
Can't wait till your master is tossed into God's apocalyptic BBQ tbqh.
To be fair, the JCP is pretty damn tame as far as communist parties go. They oppose revolutionary tactics and have stated they would allow the Emperor to remain in his current position if they were brought to power.
More like 2000 years of cultural identity.
I hate to rain on your anti-yankee parade, but the Japanese were hostile to the very idea of socialism way before the Americans kicked their asses in WW2.
The Meiji, Taisho and Showa period governments all supported the notion that the emperor was a living god and the head of the religion that 80% of all Japanese practice to this day.
It's a fairly big part of their culture, even though the Americans got them to tone it down after the war.
Socialism's anti-monarchy and anti-religion stances are a double whammy in this instance, and before the war, it was literally treason and heresy to consider the emperor anything but the faultless descendant of the Sun Goddess, and the pinnacle of all that embodies what it means to be "Japanese".
The successive governments went out of their way to suppress the various socialist workers parties, publications, and individuals over the decades, mainly because they were seen as a threat to cultural identity, in addition as a threat to the emperor, and the religion he was head of.
Add in the fact that Japan has a serious case of Not-Invented-Here syndrome, and you might start to get the idea why it hasn't really caught on, and is unlikely to anytime in the near future.
That's in spite of the fact that Japanese people are far more community minded in nature than a lot of peoples and in keeping with their very high racial and social homogeneity.
They might adapt some of it to suit their own purposes, but you can pretty much forget an actual socialist revolution happening there.
Case and point here as this comrade has already mentioned.
As should be quite well known by now, their "communist party" is more of a reformist liberal one.
It was my impression that Japan was heading to something like a constitutional democracy that sat uneasily with the spooky worship of the God-Emperor and the de jure censorship mandated by the Meiji state.
Then things shifted in the thirties towards fascism in the thirties, which ironically Japanese scholars find to be a legitimate description of the wartime Japanese state whereas Western scholars are full of excuses, qualification, and equivocations.
Even Japanese scholars debate when this took hold, but I think their right as the batshit insane and genocidal militarist government of WWII was radically different from the monarchial-oligarchial elitism of meiji elites and the half-hearted parliamentary cretinism of the Taisho period.
publications, and individuals over the decades
Very true, I am surprised how myopic some of my Japanese friends are about the world given how global Japanese goods and culture has become. Japanese fascist propagandists literally used to argue that communism and anarchism were "white" ideologies trying to conquer the world like da jooz to help justify their actions, long before any post-modernist argued that Marx was a racist and communism was hopelessly Eurocentric.
True, and its possible that this is not only due to culture but also the fact that much of the Japanese countryside was semi-feudal or dominated by aristocrats.
The Americans wiped this out by buying up the properties of landlords and hyper-inflating the currency so they didn't pay anything in reality. But the idea that everyone in Japanese society has his place in the social hierarchy and that this is not just unfortunate reality, but a positive social good is a strong one. Some also attribute it to the lingering presence of Japanese fascist ideology which tried to include Japanese workers and peasants within the Imperial-state that they were previously excluded from.
The Japanese right is apparently going crazy about the small number of Korean immigrants allowed in the country. White/black round eye Americans show up, steal their girls and cuck them and they only grumble under their breath.
I wouldn't rule Japan out anymore than any other upper-tier developed nation. Working conditions are very bad, and the student movement of the 60s once rocked Japan harder than it did America. Also at one time Japan had more Marxist intellectuals and economists then any non-communist developed country.
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But they already went through tons of socialist protests in the 60s and 70s. They're not completely disconnected from the idea.
But the idea that there will be an uprising of the workers who will overthrow the monarchy and seize the means of production is farfetched, at best.
I've already said that they're more community oriented than most, but the most that will happen is them adopting some form of social democracy.
The idea of the emperor is so tied into their cultural identity, that there's basically no separating the two.
The sanctity and inviolability of the emperor was the one condition they insisted on before accepting surrender during the war, and it's no secret that they would have rather gone down fighting if the Americans had not agreed.
The JCP is starting to get pretty popular, they made it 5th place in the last election
The JCP is getting pretty popular in Japan, they made 5th place in the last election.
But Japanese social democracy is a dead model which can no longer work, the Abe government is increasingly adopting draconian austerity/taxation/privitization models that would have seemed like something from an 80s cyberpunk anime I know that's cliche
The diminishing role of the monarchy in actual life, declining religiosity and political polarization opens up new possibilities in this regard.
Currently.
Same reason for "socialism with Chinese characteristics": Confucianism
The insidious legacy of Confucianism throughout the Asian-Pacific is a cause for many of societal ills. Confucianism promotes conformity in the name of stability to such a degree that it sedates the mind and prevents people from banding together in solidarity when it matters. Unfortunately, capitalism itself is not conducive to stability.
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Yeah all that shit is really going to help them when their birth rates are declining at an alarming rate and they're going to be extinct soon.
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