Hasan said that Kojima is a respected member of Japan's comunsit party and having done no research I am inclined to agree.
There's strong evidence in his body of work that he's at least on the left iirc, but yeah not an open communist
I think it was Miyazaki who at least historically was an out and out commie
Miasaki identified as Marxist but he never actually engaged in theory because his argument for no longer identifying as Marxist was that "some rich people are nice and some poor people are assholes"
Miyazaki just saw the collapse of the USSR and it broke his heart and then afterwards he became an environmentalist with exactly the same beliefs as before but with the added belief that marxism had failed. The man didn't change at all, he's still the same person he always was, he just succumbed to doomerism.
Surprising
My source is a video called "A Marxist Analysis of Spirited Away" from 2:57 by revolutionaryth0t (can't link it, trackers)
I think the giveaway here that this mindset was generated in him by the USSR's failure is that it was what he said in 1994, 3 years after the USSR fell and shock therapy was at its worst. And that he specifically states he believes in the communist ideal just not in the projects of real socialism.
Dude just got broken by that shit, like so many other communists did. The socialist movement suffered 30 years of decline because of how many people were so broken that they just gave up.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
you can link it if you just remove the tracking part of the url or copy it from a browser instead of the app
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aH7JvolnqP4&t=2m57s
I really hope auto-removing tracking tokens gets added to lemmy
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
Revolutionarth0t is cool and good and everyone should give her channel bigger number
Takes me back to on and off accounts of people enlisting because they liked Metal Gear I’d hear in the ‘00s.
"Yeah bro, when that stock footage of nukes dropping was playing I thought....that's so me."
Kojima-san aishiteru my darling are you daijou bu my hime? You make me so doki doki I suki desu you desu
I frankly thought it was very weird for you to assume that the omission of the "is" was a deliberate racist stylistic choice, rather than a sign that the writer themself didn't speak English as a first language, so I did some digging to find out where Istana Angin is from. As it turns out, they're from Malaysia; and as it also turns out, Malay tends not to form copular sentences with an equivalent of "to be".
So it would seem my intuition was right.
Also, I don't get why someone's use of capitals, dashes, and spaces when romanizing a language that does not use capitals, dashes, or spaces should be a point of judgment... Like, what, is this person making Mr. James Curtis Hepburn turn in his grave by writing "San" instead of "-san"?
Sent from Mdewakanton Dakota lands / Sept. 29 1837
Treaty with the Sioux of September 29th, 1837
"We Will Talk of Nothing Else": Dakota Interpretations of the Treaty of 1837
You're right, and I shouldn't assume these things. Thanks for calling me out.
