"where individualism has formed the basis of their ideas, when it has come to Communism, they have found it unacceptable, so that now they are about to do away with their traditional individualism."
You see it here in the west now: appeals to individualism, particularly the darker sides of it (degeneracy and vice, victim Olympics, selfish want for gibs) were the honey that brought the flies to the collectivist table. Pretty much all communist revolutions began by appealing to the darker nature of individualism to begin their revolutions. After which, they do away with individualism by killing off the revolutionaries themselves.
It's an interesting point of view from an outsider born in a society where collectivism was the traditional and fundamental mean.
what makes you think they would be mad that it wasn't their idea first? communism is about forcing equality. Traditional Japanese were never about that, they always had clear social hierarchies, and caste systems. They'd hate an ideology (Communism) that would try to overthrow that caste system. Imperial Japan banned communism and threw communists in to prisons, and it was actually America that got rid of that law that banned communists so who is actually more pro communist?
"where individualism has formed the basis of their ideas, when it has come to Communism, they have found it unacceptable, so that now they are about to do away with their traditional individualism."
You see it here in the west now: appeals to individualism, particularly the darker sides of it (degeneracy and vice, victim Olympics, selfish want for gibs) were the honey that brought the flies to the collectivist table. Pretty much all communist revolutions began by appealing to the darker nature of individualism to begin their revolutions. After which, they do away with individualism by killing off the revolutionaries themselves.
It's an interesting point of view from an outsider born in a society where collectivism was the traditional and fundamental mean.
But fundamentally, communism/socialism/fascism are collectivist ideas.
Ignoring the likely propagandistic leanings of the text, they might just have been mad that it wasn't their idea first.
what makes you think they would be mad that it wasn't their idea first? communism is about forcing equality. Traditional Japanese were never about that, they always had clear social hierarchies, and caste systems. They'd hate an ideology (Communism) that would try to overthrow that caste system. Imperial Japan banned communism and threw communists in to prisons, and it was actually America that got rid of that law that banned communists so who is actually more pro communist?