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” In 2003, Tokyo passed a regulation that required school or board officials to record the names of teachers who did not stand and sing the national anthem. The anthem, Kimigayo, is a solemn song about Japan’s emperor.”
Are you trying to get me reprimanded by the moderator for going off-thread by answering your misguided jibe about my views on free will? You know i can’t answer without going off thread.
Briefly: We don’t sit back and just let things happen, because we are part of the chain of cause and effect and do not exist separate from it. It is upon us to push causation in the direction we want it to go. This does not imply free will, only will.
If your will were free and independent of the chain of cause and effect, then there would be no point in its participation. It’s because we do comprehend that cause produces effect and that our will is itself made by it and can therefore act within it, that we do political work, that we hope will push others’ wills toward socialism too.The real contempt of governments for their working class subjects is often made evident, and Okinawa is a prime example.
Indoctrinated with nationalism, the Okinawans met American gunfire fanatically with bamboo spears – little knowing that Tokyo was planning to unleash plague on them, which would then spread to the Americans too.https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanno_Sugako
Meiji was savage to socialists and anarchists and to any working class activism.
Japan is militarising fast. Yet we don’t think world war is coming, and that China will invade Taiwan? If not, why not?
Please could you briefly elaborate for me, then, what is happening, and why there won’t be a world war? Because to me everything looks really bad.
Do we still think all-out world war is unlikely (on the grounds that the capitalists won’t destroy their playground)?
The most eloquent and powerful description of homelessness i have read is by Dickens in his overlooked masterpiece (also a powerful indictment of capital punishment), Barnaby Rudge.
What nationalities were in the Unit 731?
A member of the Yokusan Sonendan paramilitary political youth branch, who worked for Unit 731, stated that not only were Chinese, Russians, and Koreans present, but also Americans, British, and French people.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org › wiki
Unit 731 – Wikipedia
