• axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    The JCP I'm convinced are controlled opposition or something. They've never gotten anywhere in the diet despite how wide-reaching their propaganda is. You can see their posters in every single neighborhood in Tokyo. They're also against nuclear energy and don't seem great when it comes to queer issues.

    Their numbers are kinda impressive though for a rich capitalist country, especially for one with Communist right in the name.

    Reiwa is promising, but they're also stuck with the same thing a lot of progressive elements in Japan are stuck with. Ever since the 2013 State Secrecy Law, Japan's been pumping tons of cash into their military and intelligence. And that probably coincides with western countries getting frightened of Xi Jinping becoming the Chinese president in 2012. So Japan's stuck in a political quagmire that reminds me of 2003 America, with tons of money funneling into military expansion, and progressive voices becoming stuck on anti-war issues as their main focus.

    • putsthecultinculture [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      Japan has the same revolutionary potential as any western white country which is to say very little. Any material support to literally any other Asian country would be better spent than going to Japan. Israel would be a better invest of material support for a leftist movement than Japan. Japan isn’t an extension of the imperial core, it is at the center of it, a weird honor for a “non-white” country.

      • Nagarjuna [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        Japan has the same revolutionary potential as any western white country which is to say very little.

        Can't believe you would erase France and Greece like this

        • Vncredleader
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          2 years ago

          Greece when being complimented is Balkan or Turkish. Like how when talking about Italy in a positive way Italians are then North Africans like racist euros (and plenty of northern Italians) think