Last July the Japanese Communist Party has won
enough seats it is now the
second largest party in Japan.
So is Japan the new Communist stronghold of Asia,
next to China? So far it doesn’t really seem that way.
The JCP has its own web site (http://www.jcp.or.jp/english/). Its
main focus for taking power is to run for office. The party appears to be modeled after the so
called “Euro-Communist Parties.” They really aren’t much different that the
Socialist Democratic Party. A good example of such a party was the Italian Communist
Party which, in1991, changed their name to the Democratic
Party of the Left .
It was really more like the British Labor Party. Even before the name change they
rarely talked about Marx or Lenin.
Under “PROGRAM OF THE
JAPANESE COMMUNIST PARTY:”
World Situation - From 20th Century to 21st Century
Democracy
with popular sovereignty now forms a current accepted as a political principle
by the majority of the world's countries, thus becoming the main trend of world
politics.
With
the founding of the United Nations, the illegalization of war was set as the
historical course of development, and the building of an international order
for peace that will prevent war was set forth as the world's objective. In the
light of what the world experienced in the 20th century, in particular the wars
of aggression and opposition to attempts to carry out such wars, the
increasingly pressing task is for the peoples of the world to establish an
international order for peace.
So they definitely have decided that elections are
the only way they will push for taking control of Japan for the proletariat.
Again from “PROGRAM OF THE JAPANESE COMMUNIST PARTY:”
A change Japanese society needs at present is a
democratic revolution instead of a socialist revolution. It is a revolution
that puts an end to Japan's extraordinary subordination to the United States
and the tyrannical rule of large corporations and business circles, a
revolution that secures Japan's genuine independence and carries out democratic
reforms in politics, the economy, and society. Although these are democratic
reforms realizable within the framework of capitalism, their full-fledged
achievement can be made possible through a transfer of state power to the
forces that represent the fundamental interests of the Japanese people from
those representing Japan's monopoly capitalism and subordinate to the United
States. Success in achieving this democratic change will help solve problems
that cause the people to suffer and pave the way for building an independent,
democratic, and peaceful Japan that safeguards the fundamental interests of the
majority of the people….
The freedom
of various ideologies and beliefs as well as political activities,
including those by opposition parties, will be rigorously protected. Giving
privileges to a particular political party as the "leadership" party
in the name of "socialism" or defining a particular outlook on the
world as "state-designated philosophy" is an act that has nothing in
common with socialism and therefore must be categorically rejected.
So it appears they may act as a labor party and
provide some comfort and protections for working people, but they have no
intentions of creating a worker’s state, where workers are actually in charge
and the army and state support the workers.
As for international relationships, the JCP seems to
favor western nations over anti-imperialist nations.
JCP Chair
strongly condemns North Korean rocket launch:
The Japanese Communist Party strongly condemns
North Korea for having gone ahead with the launch which will only further
aggravate the situation. The JCP demands that North Korea comply with the UNSC
resolution and rededicate itself to the 2002 Japan-DPRK Pyongyang Declaration
and the 2006 Six-Party joint statement.
Even though the Democratic People’s Republic of
Korea has taken these measures to defend itself from the US and its puppet
allies the JCP want to allow the destruction of this socialist-anti-imperialist
outpost on the East Asian peninsula. The DPRK may have some draw backs and may
not be the best possible Marxist state, but it still stands out as an
independent socialist state.\
For a party that uses the name “communist”—this party is hardly to the left at all.
-សតិវ អតុ
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