[News Share] Does the Rise of Sanae Takaichi in Takamatsu Signal the Resurgence of Japanese Fascist Forces?

[FallWind]

The following news is quoted from United Daily News:

The Liberal Democratic Party of Japan’s presidential election concluded on Saturday (October 4th), with 64-year-old former Minister of Economy, Security, and Public Safety Sanae Takaichi elected, becoming the first female president of the LDP.

In the second round of the runoff, Sanae Takaichi received 185 votes, while Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Jinjiro Koizumi received 156 votes.

During her speech before the runoff, Sanae Takaichi said: “I sincerely love Japan and the Japanese people. I want to work with parliamentarians to write a new chapter in the history of the LDP. I will put the country’s interests first and govern with a balanced mindset. Let us pass on a strong and prosperous Japanese archipelago to the next generation.”

Recently, Sanae Takaichi defeated Jinjiro Koizumi and was successfully elected as the president of Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party. According to Wikipedia, Takaichi has a “firm conservative political reputation” and is a close ally of Shinzo Abe. Before taking office, she was repeatedly criticized by many working people for her so-called “conservative,” but essentially reactionary and even fascist policies.

As early as before 2021, she began advocating for amending Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution to rename the Japan Self-Defense Forces as a national defense army (gradually normalizing the military, abolishing the pacifist constitution, and gaining the power to initiate full-scale foreign wars), and removing the clause in the current constitution that Japan does not retain combat power or the right to engage in war. In addition, she demanded to increase the so-called “defense budget” to enable the Japanese military to attack enemy bases.

Regarding gender relations, Sanae Takaichi, as a woman (naturally, as a bourgeois woman representing the monopolist bourgeoisie), even advocates for selling women’s rights, showing traits of a female thief and female adulterer! In her view, even princesses of the Japanese imperial family should not inherit the throne; it must be held by a male member of the imperial family who represents the emperor’s authority (“one line of descent for eternity”) (not discussing the necessity and inevitability of abolishing the imperial system here). Moreover, ordinary working women should not have the right to “choose to keep their maiden names after marriage” (i.e., the freedom to retain their original surname after marriage); instead, the exploitation of old surnames should be expanded (i.e., women must change their surname after marriage)!

In terms of social security, Takaichi believes that Japan should cut basic welfare for the masses and reduce excessive “result equality” to promote opportunity equality (which, under capitalism, results in further deprivation of workers’ rights, with the bourgeoisie reaping all the benefits).

Furthermore, she advocates strengthening national identity, maintaining national dignity, and punishing acts of damaging the Japanese flag the same as damaging foreign flags. She also believes that those who have committed heinous crimes against the Chinese people, such as “Class A war criminals,” have already been brought to justice and are no longer criminals, so there is no need to move their spirit tablets out of Yasukuni Shrine, and she herself will continue to pay respects there! All these actions reveal her as a female thief, female traitor, bourgeois cheerleader, and fascist dog who is promoting nationalism and attempting to further incite Japanese patriotism. Her rise to power will inevitably lead to a further resurgence of fascist forces in Japan and escalate the possibility of a world war.

What are your thoughts on this? Welcome to leave comments!

[AfterBurner]

@FallWind

Promoting Equal Opportunity

The old Ninth of Zhongxiu most likes to use “equal opportunity” to defend their reactionary education system. But upon closer reflection, you’ll realize that “equal opportunity” is as ludicrous a term as “flexible employment”—equal opportunity means that, before students are divided into ranks in school, they are (possibly) still equal; before people are divided into ranks in capitalist society, everyone is still equal. It’s just the most ridiculous way to cover up a fact—that inequality is constantly created by this dark old society!

[FallWind]

The so-called equality of results and equality of opportunity, put in the simplest terms, actually means giving the same benefits in the final outcome, or letting everyone rely on their own abilities to see who can make more money. From this perspective, at least under the bourgeois democratic system, through the struggle of the working people, the people have gained some rights, which is why the bourgeoisie distorts and reduces it to what they call “equality of results.” Now this person is advocating for what they call equality of opportunity, which frankly means that everyone has the same chance to make money, but whether you succeed depends on your personal ability. However, in reality, in capitalist society, the working people have little ability to make money because the bourgeoisie is the ruling class; they have all kinds of privileges and can turn these so-called “equal opportunities” into opportunities exclusive to themselves through various means. The final result is that the working people become increasingly impoverished, while the bourgeoisie earns huge profits under the guise of so-called equal opportunity (capitalist countries always like to pretend they are the free world for this reason, because the bourgeoisie has the freedom to make money, while the working masses have the freedom to be poor).

[huajige]

It is like this: for example, the elections in American imperialism are a typical case of equal opportunity, but in reality, the wealthier and more powerful bourgeoisie can use money to expand propaganda for their lackeys and carry out activities to obtain votes. Meanwhile, those who speak up for the working people often get suppressed by thugs and gangs hired by the bourgeoisie. In American imperialism today, there are even people like Musk openly buying and selling votes. This is the meaning of bourgeois equality, making it easier for them to use money to rule imperialist countries.

[jqr]

It is absurd to say that he was executed; wasn’t Gang Cun Ningci later well protected by Chiang Kai-shek? How could he have been executed? Speaking of the issue of women taking their husband’s surname, I found that this seems to happen in both Japan and Western countries, but not in China. Is it because the socialist revolution period thoroughly eradicated this old tradition? Or was this feudal legal right already eliminated during the earlier peasant revolutions?

[jqr]

Moreover, this situation actually reveals the hypocrisy of bourgeois democracy. It is estimated that this guy was put in through a fabricated vote by the bourgeoisie. Japan’s right-wing fascist policies have never really been popular in Japan.

[青松]

China was like this before as well; women did not even have names and were only referred to by their husband’s surname as “Mrs. X.” It is believed that the peasant revolution and the socialist revolution eliminated this situation.

[FallWind]

Sanae Takaichi is a political prostitute who speaks exclusively for the monopoly bourgeoisie. Previously, to promote nationalism, she claimed that “foreigners” (explicitly referring to Chinese people) were extremely barbaric, kicking and beating deer in Nara. She said she was a woman from Nara, that the deer of Nara were the soul of the people of Nara, the national dignity of Japan, and that these barbaric “foreigners” (Chinese) should be expelled. However, later, because of economic ties between China and Japan’s imperialists, they couldn’t “go too far,” so some Japanese groups organized TV interviews with Nara staff, who said they hadn’t seen foreigners (Chinese) beating deer for decades, and instead, there were only cases of deer chasing and biting people. Later, they interviewed Sanae Takaichi, and she dodged the issue by saying that the statement was made several years ago (so she is not responsible for it now). She even hypocritically claimed that she was obviously referring to English-speaking foreigners, not Chinese, which is extremely shameless.

[zqjjcw]

I do not believe that Sanae Takaichi’s rise to power will bring any changes to Japan’s existing policies, not even regarding the foreigner policies she vocally criticizes the most. The Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) presidential election when she came to power revealed divisions within Japan’s monopolistic bourgeoisie. In the primary, Shinjirō Koizumi had slightly more parliamentary votes than Sanae Takaichi, and in the runoff, Takaichi only won by four votes over Koizumi. It was actually in the local LDP member votes that Takaichi led by about twenty-five votes. Her eventual rise was a result of compromise within the monopolistic bourgeoisie inside the LDP, indicating an unstable internal foundation. Moreover, even the LDP’s own governance is unstable; in the past two years’ elections for both houses of Japan’s parliament, the LDP has suffered losses, with the ruling coalition losing half of its seats, making the regime very unstable. Sanae Takaichi lacks the foundation to push many of her reactionary policies.

Ultimately, the policies Sanae Takaichi pursues depend on the interests of Japan’s monopolistic bourgeoisie. She herself is a member of the “Abe faction,” and it was precisely during Shinzo Abe’s administration that foreign tourism and labor inflows were significantly encouraged. She was responsible for economic affairs in the Abe government at that time and actively supported these measures. Expanding the inflow and exploitation of cheap foreign labor serves the interests of Japan’s monopolistic bourgeoisie. She is fundamentally incapable and powerless to make any changes to this. Her loud rhetoric is merely meant to deceive Japan’s petty-bourgeois right-wing voters.

[FallWind]

I see. It seems that one can say that Sanae Takaichi herself is a fascist, but whether she can implement fascist policies depends on whether the Japanese monopoly bourgeoisie has reached the point where it must rely on fascist dictatorship to maintain its rule. After all, according to historical materialism, her personal will is secondary; the most important factor is the struggle of the masses, and whether it has already forced the monopoly bourgeoisie she represents to need such a set of policies.

[jqr]

Why is this person’s speech so low-level, like an idiot?

[inter1359]

From this person’s previous experiences, she is also a political prostitute; the reactionary lifestyle and political reaction are consistent. 【During the 1990 election, Takaiichi published an article in the January 24 issue of “Asahi Shimbun”: “In this election, many women are running, and I highly appreciate that. However, among the ‘Madonnas’ (referring to rookie female lawmakers) elected in the House of Councillors election, some said, ‘We need to study hard from now on,’ which will continuously lower the status of women. I believe women should not be treated merely as a selling point.” But according to a report by Bungeishunju, a capitalist running a private enterprise said, "From Takaiichi, I felt the ambition of ‘she wants to use being a woman as a selling point to become a politician.’ She suddenly came to me without an appointment, and even when I refused her saying ‘I am busy,’ she leaned her body from the back seat and said, ‘Can I ride with you?’ " During this period, Takaiichi often talked openly about relationships between men and women in magazine interviews. For example, in the women’s magazine “cosmopolitan” (February 1991 issue), she had a rather bold discussion for the social atmosphere at the time with Mizuho Fukushima, the current Social Democratic Party leader and then a social lawyer. Takaiichi: I think it’s possible to fall in love with various kinds of men at the same time… Fukushima: I also wonder if sometimes you can’t understand unless you sleep with multiple men? Takaiichi: Getting to know boys more is a good thing. Until marriage, I think increasing the total number (of men I know) is not bad.】

Additionally, Taiwanese comprador collaborators are also quite traitorous regarding Takaiichi coming to power, even saying things like “May the military fortune prosper!” Image|690x454

[FallWind]

Unbelievable, Tsai Ing-wen has also become the ultimate traitor and lackey.

[无产人类至上主义]

Speaking of foreigners, recently Zhao Xiu introduced a K visa to bring in so-called talents (foreign petty-bourgeois students and rogue proletarians) to exploit the working people and use the working people’s money to provide welfare for these people. They even fabricated the so-called talent shortage of thirty million in school data. As a result, there has been continuous public criticism online, and Zhao Xiu could only awkwardly say something like “misinterpretation of the policy…” and so on.

[jqr]

To say that the petty bourgeoisie and international students are being discussed is somewhat abstract; the latter is basically impossible because the Nazis had no need to introduce foreign rogue proletarians to suppress their own masses, at least not at present, and there was no need to support foreign rogue proletarians coming to China. As for the K visa policy you mentioned, I don’t know much about it, but I think the Nazis’ actions were not really aimed at attracting international students, including researchers and the like. Rather, I think the idea that capitalist countries claim a lack of researchers is itself a strange notion because, in the imperialist era, capitalist countries mostly preserved their existing capital by monopolizing profits and so on, without engaging in capital renewal or technological adjustment. If the ruling class bourgeoisie of a country deemed it necessary to develop a certain productive force—for example, the Nazis, in order to surpass the American imperialists, frantically developed new energy production technologies and indeed surpassed American imperialism—then there was fundamentally no need to introduce so-called foreign talents. I am more inclined to think that what they wanted to attract were bourgeois intellectuals from various countries who possessed certain scientific research data, secrets, and the like. I believe the Nazis intended to directly steal or acquire certain technologies through this method or to conduct espionage infiltration in various countries.

[前进Advance]

Actually, it’s not necessarily the case, because the monopoly of technical personnel is also one of the pursuits of the monopolistic bourgeoisie. However, I also feel that this visa is more like a means of stealing technology, especially since it was introduced when the cost of the H-1B visa in the United States was significantly increased. This way, if they can attract technical personnel who have worked in the US, it becomes even easier to steal technology.

[无产人类至上主义]

It’s not that there is an intentional effort to introduce rogue proletarians, but these people who live off others are drawn by this atmosphere, just like in the imperialist countries of Europe and America. There have been numerous reports of rogue proletarian immigrants in Europe and America engaging in acts such as assaulting women, theft, and drug abuse. The monopolistic bourgeoisie in Europe and America conveniently shifts the blame onto proletarian immigrants. Recently, large-scale anti-immigrant protests have erupted across Europe and America. Although most of these protests are led by petty-bourgeois right-wing groups, objectively, many people participate for different reasons (many of them oppose these rogue proletarian immigrants and the reactionary immigration policies of imperialism). Of course, as expected, imperialist governments have dispatched police to suppress these protests (except for fascist elements). Also, Zhao Xiu’s technological level is clearly higher than India’s, so why is there still a need to infiltrate India? This point I do not quite understand.

[Yamata_no_Oroji]

Is there any specific report? You are just talking about an anti-immigration protest without even knowing its nature. This K visa also doesn’t mention any preferential treatment for Indians, so I don’t understand how you interpreted it as intending to bring in Indians.

[前进Advance]

@Proletarian Supremacism

There have been numerous reports before about rogue proletarian immigrants in Europe and America engaging in behaviors such as assaulting women, theft, and drug use, and the monopolistic bourgeoisie in Europe and America conveniently shifts the blame onto proletarian immigrants.

I think what you said is incorrect; nationalism is too severe. Most rogue proletarians actually have no money, and airfare and visa fees are not cheap. Just learning the language alone blocks many proletarians from entering. Moreover, imperialism introduces immigrants only to use them as cheap labor to suppress the wages of domestic workers; they would never allow a large influx of rogue proletarians. Internally, repression is carried out by the police, and some countries even have local gang organizations (more obvious in some militaristic feudal imperialist countries) to suppress, so there is no need to bring in foreign rogue proletarians to suppress the people. On the contrary, they become targets of nationalism in imperialist countries, with stricter scrutiny, sentencing, and so on for foreigners, and they are casually deported. It is simply impossible for a large number of rogue proletarians to commit crimes. For example, Japanese right-wing parties often claim that foreigners have a high crime rate and are destroying Japan. But NHK conducted a survey and found that the crime rate among foreigners is very low and is decreasing year by year.

[螺丝钉]

Many comments on Bilibili opposing the K visa (it is not clear here whether opposing the K visa is progressive or reactionary) are indeed based on a nationalist standpoint. They say things about wanting to dismantle the nation and so on.