By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 29 Mar 2005 01:28:07 +0000

Marxism never really made much headway in Japan, or in any industrialized countries, except among the “intelligentsia” who would be quickly be gotten rid of if communists did take over. Those clever capitalists always bought the working class off by bribing them with a prosperous economy. Japan, a very hierarchical and paternalistic country was able to industrialize rapidly without slave labor camps always required by communist regimes. I just don’t understand why they didn’t want to be like North Korea, Soviet Russia, China, North Vietnam and Cambodia. That would be much better than American imperialism with all that phony freedom of speech, freedom of association, and civil rights in the post WW II era. Communists had a fair shot at converting the masses in Japan, but they remained a fringe group. The only real traction they could get was anti- Americanism, which is the only remains of Marxism. (I recently read Paul Robeson’s obsequious eulogy to Stalin, written in 1953. It sounds like one of those diatribes routinely parroted by campus radicals today. Jane Fonda’s speeches delivered in Vietnam sounded the same, just substitute Ho for Stalin. Today the same speeches today would be half as long, all anti-Americanism, no Stalin or Ho.) With the fall of the Soviets and capitalism now taking over in China, and Vietnam, where do Marxists look to for guidance, North Korea? I don’t understand why these dunces still populate our campuses. Maybe your friend can explain it to me. Ref; http://www.mltranslations.org/miscellaneous/RobesonJVS.htm http://www.3rdmarines.net/Vietnam_jane_fonda_Hanoi_radio.htm (Pardon the background sounds. Just read the speech.)

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