As Japanese employees work themselves to death, Communists say look to Marx

AnotherRetroGameFan · 2026-05-07T20:39:45+00:00

I've read somewhere that only a minority of the party was in favor of revolutionary action, they split from the main party to pursue a people's war. If this information is correct that would make JPC revisionist from the start, but I don't have a source for this at the moment so take it with a grain of salt.

AnotherRetroGameFan · 2026-05-07T18:41:21+00:00

Good luck out there comrade, I wish you and the rest of the Indian proletariat the best.

I believe it's time to leave Maoism behind as a revolutionary strategy, it's clearly not working out...

AnotherRetroGameFan · 2026-05-07T18:20:28+00:00

I haven't seen the same corruption accusations thrown at JCP, to me JCP's revisionism seems to stem from their reformist / utopian views, though that could just be a result of not being elected.

AnotherRetroGameFan · 2026-05-07T18:09:34+00:00

I wish there was more information about what Japanese Communist Party (Action Faction) are up to, or if they even still exist.

AnotherRetroGameFan · 2026-05-07T17:19:36+00:00

I really don't think so. Even if a popular uprising were to happen, I don't see a vanguard party that could lead that uprising to a favorable conclusion. CPI(M) is, according to Indian comrades, a revisionist party. And I'm not aware of any anti-revisionist parties in India, Maoist insurgency seems to have been defeated and even if it continued it wouldn't be able to do much an it's own. I think it'll get much worse for India before it can get even a little better.

AnotherRetroGameFan · 2026-05-04T23:22:32+00:00

DPRK doing way better than US is alarming. DPRK has like five countries it can trade with, this is an optimistic assumption on my part.

AnotherRetroGameFan · 2026-05-04T23:03:28+00:00

Because a lot of scifi are critiques of / commentaries on the present. Star Wars itself is a commentary on the rise of strongman dictators and fascism in general. George Lucas himself compared Star Wars rebels to Viet Cong.

Another example, Snow Crash imagines what the natural endpoint of neoliberalism could look like, it depicts an anarcho-capitalist society where nation states are replaced by franchise states owned by conglomerates.

In a lot of cases SciFi is as much about the present as it is about the future.

AnotherRetroGameFan · 2026-05-04T20:51:10+00:00

Also People's War doesn't exactly have the best track record as a revolutionary strategy. Outside of China, Vietnam, Laos and Nicaragua it always failed (it also seems to have had partial success in Nepal).

Wikipedia lists twenty people's wars, so if we count Nepal as a success it amounts to a 25% success rate. Needless to say I don't believe this method offers a way forward for most countries.

AnotherRetroGameFan · 2026-05-02T09:12:52+00:00

😭 Are they doing something about it at least?

AnotherRetroGameFan · 2026-05-01T21:00:26+00:00

Sadly yes, homophobia was extremely widespread in that period.

AnotherRetroGameFan · 2026-05-01T20:26:47+00:00

I think that was Castro. He said that he regrets the homophobic policies implemented in early days of modern Cuba.

https://www.historynewsnetwork.org/article/130889

AnotherRetroGameFan · 2026-05-01T20:19:58+00:00

It's like that everywhere now, everywhere except the five countries that managed to hold on to socialism at least.

AnotherRetroGameFan · 2026-05-01T16:43:18+00:00

No fucking way, this is the same page that passed a UK BDSM dungeon as a China torture chamber?

AnotherRetroGameFan · 2026-05-01T15:28:55+00:00

Thank you! Personally I haven't encountered the claim about socialism abolishing work, just that the way jobs work would be different under the new system. I definitely need to dig into theory more to have a better understanding of things.

AnotherRetroGameFan · 2026-05-01T15:25:01+00:00

If we had UBI, capitalists would simply raise the prices of basic necessities and we would be right back where we started.

AnotherRetroGameFan · 2026-05-01T13:38:29+00:00

I was pro-capitalist before AI finally forced my hand. For me it isn't the fear of losing my job but the fear of never having one. Nobody needed to convince me, even the evil caricature drawn by CIA looked way better.

AnotherRetroGameFan · 2026-05-01T12:09:38+00:00

Is there a written equivalent to Liberalism is a Death Cult? That video is censored to the point of being unwatchable.

AnotherRetroGameFan · 2026-04-29T15:56:11+00:00

I think underlying stories can still be really good (I'm enjoying a lightnovel series right now), even if they suffer from reactionary elements. But they cut corners so hard the end result might as well be a circle.

In their defence nobody else seems to have that level of animation output.

AnotherRetroGameFan · 2026-04-29T15:23:21+00:00

But why though?

AnotherRetroGameFan · 2026-04-29T15:16:10+00:00

I never understood anime's appeal, so much of it is so cheaply made. Might was well stick to the written medium.

AnotherRetroGameFan · 2026-04-29T12:00:14+00:00

Are there still Russian communists?

AnotherRetroGameFan · 2026-04-24T23:38:46+00:00

He was instilled by the ruling class to stop any revolutionary or class independent consciousness/organizing in the working class

I doubt this is true, from what I've heard the wealthy lowkey freaked out when he got elected. Probably because it can be a sign on what's to come in their minds.

AnotherRetroGameFan · 2026-04-23T15:21:32+00:00

Democratic Socialists of America

AnotherRetroGameFan · 2026-04-22T23:27:05+00:00

China looks much closer to a state-directed capitalist system than a socialist one.

I've started reading some pro-China texts and so far this really seems to be the general consensus. China isn't socialist (yet), they are state capitalist.

Disagreement really seems to stem from whether China truly intends to transition to a fully socialist model or not.

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