How the Japanese Communist Party Survived For 101 Years

Basically social-democracy but kawaii

maybe they should rebrand the commie name.

I enjoy your videos. I must comment though on the issue of the JCP acting as spoilers. The last few elections the JCP has cooperated with the other parties against the LDP and this clearly didn't work. The LDP's greatest success is based on the failure of any political party offering a distinct policy. While they were working with the other parties the coalition's platform seemed to be solely, "we would like to be in power". Any failure of the JCP and definitely the old socialist party is not that they were too left wing its actually the opposite. For the JCP to remain relevant it needs to come up with a clear socialist platform.

JCP is not commendable....it's basically useless except at very local areas. It will never hold power on a national scale and if anything will be dragged further right. They basically disavow any succesful socialist/communist movement and think they can vote out a gov/party that becomes further entrenched in how systems just work.

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I wonder if the CIA and Soko Gallai work together to stop the Japanese Communist Party, it’d be routine; based on FOIA documents related to Chile

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The Japanese Communist Party got to dance on USSR's grave... and enjoyed it.

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the jcp was "jailed during ww2" and that's why they didn't do anything, and definitely not because they were also a bit nationalistic and self-interested, and had no interest in liberating the lands colonized by japan right...

In recent history, the JCP is no different than a social democratic party.

Fascinating - in most Western countries, even those Communist parties that are very critical of the old USSR and the modern Chinese Communist State would never actually dispute their leadership of global communism and would always explain away or other "apologise" for their repressions by often drawing false equivalence with the nonetheless very real failings of Western countries.

the perma-online moids in the comments are unbearable, holy shit.

The Mario-style sound effects were really unnecessary. Just... why? They distract from the actual content. And are cheesy, at any rate.

you didn't mention how another reason for the split was much of the founding membership of the JCP was anarchist type socialists and communists. Anarchists tend to oppose vanguard style socialism like what existed in China and Russia.

Damn, the Japanese Communist Party is actually kinda good

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The JCP's opposition to nuclear energy is such a joke! What do they want, more coal like Germany? Is that communism? Yeah right!

Civilian nuclear power has been a proud socialist tradition. This policy is an embarrassment, and it's not the only one from this so-called 'communist' party.

JCP's adherence to pacifism is definitely cute. They probably would not be around if they had any political relevancy in Japan.

You should do a Indian communist party edition. it is crazy than Japan

So the JCP isn't tankie?
BASED

so the same thing happened the party got filled with liberals

Also, was it a JCP politician who got assassinated by a monarchist guy with a wakizashi? He was trying to form closer ties with Maoism, unlike the more democratic communist types.

Japan must not have Communism, Japan is ruled by the Emperor, the Imperial system is sacred, the Yamato Dynasty rules the longest in the world, and Communism is evil.

Oui, you gonna blow up.

Every gamer that has played a bad game from Japan: that explains a lot

As someone who's currently knee deep in researching communism in countries less often mentioned in popular history of the 2nd half of the 20th century, THANK YOU! My only critic would be that I would've wished some newer sources (written in the late 1900s or early 2000s) - but I understand if you're working with open sources.

Lukewarm social democrats who will continue to be irrelevant for the next 100 years, if they manage to even get that far.

''In Japan, will make you an anime character!''

Seems interesting that Japan's communist party is learning to adapt. I don't quite agree with their pacifist side though as they can't really gain much from China nor Russia. Since China hates Japan and Russia thinks Japan as a puppet for US. And respect is usually how Japan does politics. So, Japan would have to play a submissive role this time with China and Russia.

Im surprised the JCP tolerates the emperor system

They should definitely try to run candidates where they have more support, and try to reach out to other socialist or leftist parties. This is easy to say as an outsider of course...

Good communist party 👍

The Japanese really can't quit the hereditary systems

Nice video, I support the comrades

I feel like this thing is basically unheard of. Because communism in Japan has always been extremely unpopular. And turns out it is also so different from the traditional communism.

Us freed the communist that does not sound right.

I hope they still exist

They go woke these years and nobody is happy about it.

Defanged, toothless, irrelevant, and no idea what they're doing. No wonder communists around the world stopped taking the JCP seriously decades ago. Better examples for contemporary communist movements are plentiful around the world.

I didn't even pay attention to your speech I was hypnotized by your video graphics and sound effects.

It's unfortunate to see they've diluted some of their initial principles in order to evade prosecution and to try to gain support from moderates. Their existence though is still a welcome sight overall.

So basically they survived because they stopped being communists

It's funny that they ended all their chances of ever doing anything impactful the moment they decided to abide by electoralism. First mistake a socialist organization could make. Liberal democracy is dictatorship of the rich and a popularity contest.