Ideological Chaff

Like China, Japan has a Communist Party. You might think the Communist Party of Japan are 100% behind the Communist Party of China, but you’d be wrong. The Japanese Communist Party actually denounces and disavows its Chinese counterpart. It might be thought that the Japanese Communists are more “woke” due to Japan’s ideological proximity to the West, but I think there’s more to it than that. The Communist Party of China has held a monopoly on a large and diverse country for the past seventy years, and those seventy years might have given it a sort of ideological dechaffing. When policies they expected to work failed, they learned from their experiences and “fine-tuned” their ideology to better fit reality. Granted Deng Xiaoping got in a faceful of trouble for saying “This doesn’t seem to be working. Let’s try something different,” but he turned out to be right and ended up succeeding Mao Zedong as President. By contrast, the Communist Party of Japan has never held such a monopoly on power in Japan, and so they’re still loaded with ideological chaff. Probably the one thing a Chinese Communist can say to most irritate a Japanese Communist is “We tried that. It didn’t work.” Interestingly, the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan, which has held such a monopoly on power in Japan, has had its own ideological dechaffing over its own seventy years of power. Its policies aren’t really all that liberal, since workers’ rights and tenants’ rights, two things that Trve Kvlt Liberals are averse to defending, are fairly strong here.