tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-229771691402494724.post8209125731588538788..comments2024-02-27T13:46:29.728+09:00Comments on A Nuttycellist's Monologue: The general election was overShin JA1NUThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01887476281297960362noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-229771691402494724.post-85037784990445706962017-11-05T14:25:15.411+09:002017-11-05T14:25:15.411+09:00Shin
Perhaps socialism could succeed if only the ...Shin<br /><br />Perhaps socialism could succeed if only the tendency to morph into totalitarianism, like the USSR or North Korea, could be avoided. China has a hybrid system with an authoritarian communist government and a capitalist economy. It remains to be seen if this strange compromise will survive. <br /><br />The EU's experiment with a socialist union of 28 nations is now experiencing a slow disintegration.<br /><br />There does seem no alternative to a pure socialist solution to the world's problems, but it is a Utopian ideal and unlikely to emerge in the near future. Let us pray that another massive war is not necessary for a socialist world order to rise from the ashes.<br /><br />We are at the crossroads. Johnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17623377142698276258noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-229771691402494724.post-64108670658523709062017-11-05T14:04:42.392+09:002017-11-05T14:04:42.392+09:00This comment has been removed by the author.Johnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17623377142698276258noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-229771691402494724.post-63918719969841994532017-11-02T19:20:22.048+09:002017-11-02T19:20:22.048+09:00Hi John,
I meant the grass root democracy or the ...Hi John,<br /><br />I meant the grass root democracy or the democracy with the idea of equal human rights with "liberalism". The anti these to totaltareanism. I know liberalism stands for globalism from the economical stand point. I haven't meant that way.<br /><br />I fully understand globalism has brought forth the worker class which had been exploited by the global companies. It is my question why those people won't go against the globalism but concentrate on hatred toward the immigrants or the alienated people. They are apt to be nationalistic, sometimes, with fanatic ultra right ideologies. <br /><br />Just after the WWII, there was an era of social welfare, when the peoples could expect life long welfare from the governments. It turned out that the governments could not go on the service of social welfare. It was the time when neo liberalism claimed everythng was self responsibility. Globalism based on the neo liberalism economy theories has started exploiting ordinary people. It has reached all over the world. We are living in the world where it has distorted every aspect of our lives. I bet we should come back to the socialism again, not the same regime as failed in the end of the last century. Not robbing the social common capital and looking upon subsuming all the people, we should construct the new<br />world. I know how difficult it is but we should do that. Or we could be perished.<br /><br />ShinShin JA1NUThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01887476281297960362noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-229771691402494724.post-33574107382763912452017-11-01T22:54:51.280+09:002017-11-01T22:54:51.280+09:00Hi Shin
In the eyes of millions in the US and EU,...Hi Shin<br /><br />In the eyes of millions in the US and EU, liberalism is equivalent to globalism. In fact they do seem to be inextricably linked. Where you have no trade restrictions between countries, lower cost nations will prevail and the established 1st world manufacturers will collapse. The only winners are the middle-men, the "elite" bankers and traders who profit from the difference. <br /><br />There is a whole new class of entrepreneurs who have emerged in the past 40 or so years. The income disparities between this class and the traditional blue-collar workers in say, Baltimore USA, have increased spectacularly. We now have a sub-class of workers who were once able to afford to send their kids to college, drive two cars, and own a nice house in the leafy suburbs.<br /><br />No longer. All this has gone now. Whole communities in the Rust Belts of USA are unemployed. Gunshot deaths and opiate addiction have reached epidemic levels. Despair stalks the land.<br /><br />In these circumstances people like Trump, Farage and Marine le Pen emerge to whip up resentment against imagined foes, the evil foreigner. The press aids and abets. In US you have Fox News which spews hatred. In UK it is the Daily Mail.<br /><br />The disenfranchised working classes have been betrayed by the elites, represented by Clinton in US and May in UK. These leaders really only represent the privileged few, the bankers and entrepreneurs. <br /><br />Populism is the inevitable solution and always has been, since Greek and Roman times. <br /><br />Socialism has been tried and has failed.<br /><br />There seems to be no middle way.<br /><br />What is the answer? <br /><br />Johnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17623377142698276258noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-229771691402494724.post-63015083587409539182017-10-30T13:54:51.514+09:002017-10-30T13:54:51.514+09:00John,
100% agree with you. Koike is essentially a...John,<br /><br />100% agree with you. Koike is essentially a ultra right politician pretending to be a populist. She is told to have chosen the thema of the public commitment from a study of artificial intelligence, which has given her those which attract people most. No philosophy nor background on them. <br /><br />It was really a choice between authoritarianism leading to fascism and grass root democracy. Prime minister Abe is trying to shorten the time for discussion with the non ruling parties at the diet. He is also aiming adding the emergency provisions into the constitution. It may complete his political ambition to be a leader of dictatorship like those in the prewar history. <br /><br />I wonder what is causing such populism/fascism in the world. It must be a backlash to globalism in a sense. But why not to liberalism?Shin JA1NUThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01887476281297960362noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-229771691402494724.post-1540003788363803602017-10-29T23:01:15.012+09:002017-10-29T23:01:15.012+09:00Shin
I was following the progress of Yuriko Koike...Shin<br /><br />I was following the progress of Yuriko Koike's Party of Hope, but she seemed to mismanage her campaign and results were disappointing. It appears that some members of her party have combined with CDP, which is encouraging.<br /><br />Japanese politics may be following a worldwide trend. Liberal democracies are under threat from populist movements which in turn give rise to quasi-dictatorships. Even the EU is being eroded by populist movements in UK, Netherlands and Germany. The recent successes by Macron in France may be only temporary, and the EU could break up into small nation-states like those of the 19th century, jealously guarding their borders and trade and going to war over disagreements.<br /><br />The lessons of two world wars are being forgotten as those who were directly involved die of old age, and the events pass beyond living memory.<br /><br />History repeats itself.<br /><br />JohnJohnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17623377142698276258noreply@blogger.com