IDK abt this im constantly discovering new music that I adore. Its possible theres something thats not considered here but I think this is more of a marketing gimick chart

not even mentioning the suppression of the Ainu which continued even after the “empire collapsed after ww2”

its a little bit of an odd one but Japanese imperial flag i think would be a nice one to see. Although I kinda consider Japan occupied by the US now, and its flag is changed, it still uses the imperial flag in celebration of many things related to its war crimes and to honor their dead soldiers. Additionally because of their lack of effort in rectifying the atrocities they’ve heavily strained their relationship in the region and most Japanese citizens don’t even know about atrocities committed.

Yeah honestly I totally agree.

The idea that religion would be on the side resisting oppression or against it inherently is flawed. We see religion used to justify just about anything. Even within the same system and same struggles. You could replace religion with just about any societal construct and the issue comes from the leaders of said constructs and their own struggles, to be opportunistic and aid imperialism or to fight for the workers, and the workers in their stringent trust in the leaders. Just the same issues different name.

But because dialectical materialism is exactly that, materialism, religion as a concept tends to be a kind of antithetical thought.

I’d be okay with that just to have as a placeholder for all future events like this.

what on earth could have possibly happened. I wish we could still see comments that resulted in the ban cuz im so curious how people go so far offtrack they can get banned for a comment.

ubgbhgbhgbhgg There doesn’t seem to be an archive of this yet. I would love to see a concrete source I keep seeing it around. Everything keeps leading back to a Beijing international news company which I’m a little wary of. It’s possible this is a ploy to try to reduce investment in china, not that it’d work lol.

In any case I cant confidently share it until I find something more concrete. As the person and the business aren’t even named. It also keeps being covered as a “This makes AI and gadgets in China more expensive.”

If you mean the definition we use in america it is; Capitalism creates many middle men for all kinds of systems. This is because creating a supply issue and selling the solution creates a whole new market and thus profit. However this also increases complexity and connections that need to be gone through just to access something you could before, from the supplier. Each time a middle man is added, the price also increases for the end user.

Additionally bureaucracy has its origins ins Feudal society and serves as a method for oppressing the proletariat, often with more well off proletariat. Often these systems are used to increase complexity explicitly to prevent the proletariat from resisting the demands of the bourgeois class. An example of this that is extremely popular is when you need assistance at a bank service, or with a refund online, or account recovery, and find that the support system is operated by a bot, which you must navigate its many particular menu’s to find the issue you have. Which it of course might not actually have. Inevitably leading you to find the option which leads to an actual person to solve your issue. Sometimes leading them to reveal that you called the wrong number, causing a transfer which risks disconnect, or requiring you to call a different one. All of which costs time and exhausts the caller with the goal of forcing them to give up navigating a system designed for them to do so.

The complexity of US law is another Example of bureaucracy oppressing the proletariat, as is US tax law. Mistakes made in such cases are at such a high risk that often one must pay for an expert in such cases to even have a chance of navigating the environment. Done intentionally to extract as much out of the proletariat as possible through mistakes. Often many innocent people accept appeals simply to avoid the complexity and potential punishment for fighting a crime. Only to violate their complex parole and be sent to prison.

[[What you’re reading is referring to this most likely]]

But, Marx and Lenin believed that once revolution or transformation of state has occurred, it by no means suddenly creates something new. They use this to target what they primarily speak of when they talk about bureaucracy, that is remnants of the Old bourgeois state. This is part of the obligations of a newly created socialist government. To use the powers the have to dismantle and whither away the bureaucracy that was established by the bourgeois and in doing so dismantle a branch of power they still hold over the proletariat.

It’s important to remember that the bureaucracy, although appointed by bourgeois and is in service to them, is of course staffed primarily by the unelected proletariat class traitors. They are typically referring to Police, Professors, Lawyers, and other peoples who can only hope to gain cushy positions where they are seen as superior to the rest of the proletariat by using their position to betray the proletariat to bourgeois class interests. These take the form of Police who oppress the workers uprisings, the Lawyers write laws allowing harm and pollution to workers or suffering people or create tax loopholes for the bourgeois, Private Scientists who falsify data for profit such as with oil companies and climate change, etc. These individuals who hold roles that are to be replaced with elected officials and subject to removal by the working class. Instead of holding these positions of superior to the workers, they become simply an extension of the workers will.

Because they define Bureaucrats as privileged persons divorced from the people and standing above the people. And bureaucracy as the tendency for these opportunists to be in positions of power. Most of what they write is detailing the importance of replacing such individuals with either elected ones or replace them with process’s of the state.

I’ll find the book I read that details much of this and post it later for sources.

Yeah opposition parties have been really rough. A vast majority of them are conservative with only 1-2 ones that could even be called reformist liberal. Japan has the oldest unmodified constitution in the world. It’s constitution was also modeled after America’s and it’s a prime example of why adding more parties doesn’t fix anything. It’s such a gridlock and even with the recent election getting a majority with one party, which has rarely happened, it’s unlikely to actually result in any meaningful change like constitutional amendments. Japan is really built for “status quo”

I live in an area where most of the population is religious including fellow comrades. The idealism portion might be a difficult hurdle to cross over for them. I’m not sure how I would address it honestly.

Pamphlets are mainly meant to educate and agitate those that are already willing so I really doubt this needs any changing. But may not be as useful within my area, but I’d still like to print and try. Thank you for creating this.

I wrote a guide for my community on how to build a movement and I had a section talking about prioritizing effort into those that would be easiest to convince over those that would resist. It’s better to recruit 10 willing comrades than save 1 nazi from their pit of hate.

Thank you a lot for this, you’re totally right. That’s how I’ve been handling it and I just started to kinda forget that. The way you described it is really nice I might screenshot it for others.

You’re totally right I think in my circumstances I’m predominantly encountering privileged class individuals. It does return the question to “how can you convince bourgeois to be a class traitor” to a degree.

When people are immediately inflamed by something I definitely step back on what I’m talking about. Especially with people outside the country I’m in I try to keep it more casual as I don’t have a big investment in discussing it with them. Totally agree with you’re suggestions. Thank you for the insight in your experiences with many difference people. It really helps me feel better about it. I think I’m speaking to a slightly privileged class most of the time and it created a kinda “survivorship bias” effect.

Honestly a lot of my Japanese friends are mostly just disengaged with politics. Its considered taboo to discuss with people so its hard to convert people among friends until you know they’re ok with it . Even when they want to talk about it, I have several friends who have told me its refreshing to be able to discuss Japanese politics with someone because it’s so …almost cringe to talk about it normally. Couple that with a government that seemingly never enacts meaningful change and participation and education is waaaaaay down.

I have a couple friends who voted for Takaiichi and all of them just gave superficial reasons like that shes “cool”. Online is different from reality always.

You’re correct in you’re total assessment but I wanted to expand the bombardment would have zero ideological effect. The US has constantly resorted to bombardment over ground invasion and the reality is that in every war it practiced this strategy it has not succeeded. Especially if we believe the emperor’s account that the USSR was cause for their eventual surrender.

The US is constantly bombarding civilian populations and failing to bring about victory and claiming it was because they hadn’t violated enough rules of war. That they hadn’t ye bombed enough hospitals, or children, or families, or historical sites. That if only they had been allowed to bomb a little more, they surely would have broken the spirit of the country. The reality is that none of these function as an extension of the military in any meaningful way. The targeting of the civilians is almost a punishment for a military that is able to secure themselves defensively. It can also result in the “Guerilla math” talked about in the Cuban, Vietnam, and Afghanistan conflict

A country with a fascist, liberal, or otherwise bourgeois controlled government in general will have little, if any impact from its proletariat dying in such numbers for a war. But the US’s really shows it’s severe weakness in these situations as a paper tiger. Huge displays of power that result in no meaningful progress towards their goals. Simply causing immense suffering.

IIRC the emperor at the time literally admitted as much in his diary. I’m having trouble finding a Japanese version of his diary online but ill amend this post to have it once I do.

https://apjjf.org/tsuyoshi-hasegawa/2501/article

For me what helped learning characters was constant exposure to them. Especially compound words made of two characters. I learned Japanese so I’m not sure how similar Chinese words function but using a meaning guide to try to tie meaning into the compound word, and also repeatedly seeing it in the environment associated with things really helps build memories. Ultimately the way to remember something literally is to make as many meaningful memories with it as possible. If you have a local buisiness ran by a Chinese family maybe keep a look out for signs or products that have kanji you’re studying. I had a really difficult time remembering 注意 until I went to japan and saw it written on every pole and sign warning about animals and people. Now I’ll never forget it.

So mechanical repetition will work through brute force but it takes way less effort if you make each repetition more meaningful. Just mix em.

I relate to this immensely, I just recently experienced a similar pain.

I recently have been trouble with intense pain in my abdomen slightly right of center and went to the ER multiple times thrashing from the pain, could even feel it through morphine. Cat scan showed nothing but my family history has gallstones so they scheduled a gastro doc.

I’m fuckin pissed at this guy, I was in so much pain I needed to be wheel chaired in because I couldn’t take painkillers before the tests that day and he came in asked me the problem I described it as “pain in my upper stomach area center right” and he tells me my stomach is on my left side and I clarify I meant the belly region below the ribs. He begins poking at several areas and when he hits my ribs i feel intense pain, I almost start crying instantly. He says this is simply a bruised rib, pokes my other organs again and the rib a fucking GAIN. I state the pain this time is too far to the right and before it was more center and he says “I don’t know what you tell you its simply your rib” pokes it twice more and then tells me to take advil and finish the tests scheduled(HIDA and Ultrasound. I mentioned I take oxy for the pain right now and he said “no don’t take painkillers just advil for anti inflammatory” as if it’s no big deal and as if advil is not a mild painkiller and left. When I’m in the HIDA scan they are unable to conduct the test because my gallbladder doesn’t fill (a sign of stones) and he cancels my ultrasound. Fucking for no reason

The next night I went to the ER and got an ultrasound and its fucking gallstones. fucking asshole is lucky my organ wasn’t infected and I wasn’t willing to listen to him. He could’ve gotten someone seriously injured or killed.

However doctors here often ignore women and believe they’re being hysterical. I’ve seen it most my life with all my family members.

I blame it on doctors predominantly being part of upper class families of petite or regular bourgeois and fall for the usual reactionary tendencies. Basically two different things make them think they’re better than you all the time. I trust experts but in this field, and in the imperial core, they’re too often refuse to listen to anything else. The best experts hone on the truth with discussion and collaboration.

you could read these anytime and im honestly shocked people thought japanese ppl were abnormal compared to the rest of the world.

I literally was seeing the view on the communist party and i saw a picture of a pamphlet i also recieved that said “The communist party is the enemy of japan” 「日本の共産党は日本の敵です」 (the pamphlet basically just had info on being anti war btw) the replies were full of crazy stuff like “its a crime we arent able to kill them in the streets”「街で殺すのが違法んですよ」 and “We should burn down kyoto, its where all the communists are”　「京都を焼き払う。そこで赤の元だ」

there shouldnt be any mystification of other people. Everyone is generally the same everywhere with the same values to different degree of intensity and different means to accomplish them.

I have a bunch of communist friends and I’ve made some new ones online through the irl ones that I have visited and done a little organizing with