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  1. Libertad

    Nothing to Lose but Your Chains! / a German Revolution TL

    You've got to be kidding me. It's a built-in feature to a dictatorship of the proletariat to at least outright disenfranchise and disarm the bourgeoisie and the aristocrats until they pass certain requirements where they can be finally enfranchised. Sure. That can be criticized from a liberal...
  2. Libertad

    Nothing to Lose but Your Chains! / a German Revolution TL

    It's the simple fact that the constituencies that has always composed the ideological or political Right like big business, landowners and powerful religious organizations doesn't exist or largely neutered in such a post-capitalist society. Not to mention the methods of disenfranchising and...
  3. Libertad

    A Brighter Sunrise: more reforms in post-war Japan | WWII apologies, work culture, civil rights, no stagnant economy, digital tech

    It's not even really retroactive. Portions of the radical left from the Trotskyists to the anarchists have always criticized the overall participation in World War II as it was happening at that time. The mainline communist parties just happen to support the conflict because the USSR is a big...
  4. Libertad

    A Brighter Sunrise: more reforms in post-war Japan | WWII apologies, work culture, civil rights, no stagnant economy, digital tech

    @Father Maryland where did you get this idea that "Japan is a victim" that you thought came from left-wing academia or scholars that seems to make the implication that Japan has to be absolved of its war crimes or at least minimize their impact "just because it was victimized by the West" or...
  5. Libertad

    A Brighter Sunrise: more reforms in post-war Japan | WWII apologies, work culture, civil rights, no stagnant economy, digital tech

    Bretton Woods ended with the Nixon Shock fourteen years before the Plaza Accords. It's largely subconscious. There's nothing hyperbolic in telling what is the truth in what happened though. It's partly about trade but it's not all about it. And there lies the problem, which largely proves...
  6. Libertad

    A Brighter Sunrise: more reforms in post-war Japan | WWII apologies, work culture, civil rights, no stagnant economy, digital tech

    That's your interpretation of what I'm saying ? Are you kidding me? Not to mention the fact that the insinuation in the statement is the fact that the Plaza Accord of 1985 is simply about some attempt of "making things equal" or "fair", "closing loopholes", if that's what you think this is all...
  7. Libertad

    A Brighter Sunrise: more reforms in post-war Japan | WWII apologies, work culture, civil rights, no stagnant economy, digital tech

    Because West Germany has the benefit of the European Economic Community and the creation of the single market through Maastricht, the East German market through German reunification and the eventual creation of the euro for Germany to fall back on. Not to mention the expansion of the European...
  8. Libertad

    A Brighter Sunrise: more reforms in post-war Japan | WWII apologies, work culture, civil rights, no stagnant economy, digital tech

    American economic imperialism and monetary policy sabotage through the Reagan administration caused the Lost Decades in the first place via the signing of the Plaza Accord that then led to policies that led to the bubble economy. Japan simply has no choice but to comply as a military...
  9. Libertad

    A Brighter Sunrise: more reforms in post-war Japan | WWII apologies, work culture, civil rights, no stagnant economy, digital tech

    I don't know. The only thing I can say is that no matter who wins the Chinese Civil War and the Korean War, if they happen or not, a JSP/JLP governed Japan is still going to have some kind of a national defense force, despite the constitutional pacifism. It's just going to be some kind of...
  10. Libertad

    A Brighter Sunrise: more reforms in post-war Japan | WWII apologies, work culture, civil rights, no stagnant economy, digital tech

    Well it's your timeline.
  11. Libertad

    A Brighter Sunrise: more reforms in post-war Japan | WWII apologies, work culture, civil rights, no stagnant economy, digital tech

    Impossible. And you have to take into account both the domestic politics and the international situation. There's no LDP around here to be create a more serious ideological pacifist opposition. Rather, the Socialists here are the people in government.... of a democratic republic of Japan...
  12. Libertad

    A Brighter Sunrise: more reforms in post-war Japan | WWII apologies, work culture, civil rights, no stagnant economy, digital tech

    Economic policy meaning macroeconomic policy like the government interventions, the lending practices, the keiretsu model, MITI, etc. And yes, I have no illusions that even a social democratic Japan is not going to be a complete paradise for workers' rights because I'm no socdem and I don't...
  13. Libertad

    A Brighter Sunrise: more reforms in post-war Japan | WWII apologies, work culture, civil rights, no stagnant economy, digital tech

    It's interesting. Mine revolves a Republic of Japan that is ruled by a coalition of Japan Socialist Party, Japan Liberal Party and Komeito to replace the LDP starting with the Cold War and expulsion of the JCP from the coalition government. Otherwise, all else still fits. SDF still came into...
  14. Libertad

    A Brighter Sunrise: more reforms in post-war Japan | WWII apologies, work culture, civil rights, no stagnant economy, digital tech

    An excellent analysis. Something that I want to say but you said it much better. That paragraph/passage in the page is largely oriented on the traditionalist/orthodox interpretation of the dropping of the bomb, which revisionist and consensus historians have largely fought against, to some...
  15. Libertad

    A Brighter Sunrise: more reforms in post-war Japan | WWII apologies, work culture, civil rights, no stagnant economy, digital tech

    Makes you think doesn't it? It's like shifting the goal posts and now the new justification for the atomic bombings is because of Japan's war crimes in Asia and in China in the Sino-Japanese War, which the United States largely turned a blind eye by the way. By the way, the atomic bombings...
  16. Libertad

    A Brighter Sunrise: more reforms in post-war Japan | WWII apologies, work culture, civil rights, no stagnant economy, digital tech

    Not really. Based on stuff that I've read, particularly that of Gar Alperovitz's book, this is largely a myth propagated in order for the Americans to provide some flimsy justification for the atomic bombings of two civilian cities that Truman called "military bases" in his radio address. The...
  17. Libertad

    A Brighter Sunrise: more reforms in post-war Japan | WWII apologies, work culture, civil rights, no stagnant economy, digital tech

    Seems like you want a social democratic version of postwar Japan in a world that is largely similar to our timeline. In my opinion, it's a bit simple. Prevent Harry Truman from getting elected and have a more socially progressive president like Henry Wallace as the successor of Roosevelt. It...
  18. Libertad

    A Brighter Sunrise: more reforms in post-war Japan | WWII apologies, work culture, civil rights, no stagnant economy, digital tech

    Japan of 1945 is such a clean slate. It's very possible for anything to happen at that time but one thing is for sure on the international scale, the Cold War is going to happen and its seeds are pretty much already laid out the moment the Soviets and Americans met in Potsdam so there's very...
  19. Libertad

    A Brighter Sunrise: more reforms in post-war Japan | WWII apologies, work culture, civil rights, no stagnant economy, digital tech

    Your welcome. Reds! is basically more than just a demonstration of "What If America became communist in the 1930s?" It's a demonstration of "what if the pre-Bolshevik Revolution Orthodox Marxist thesis of a proletarian revolution in a highly industrialized capitalist economy occurred as...
  20. Libertad

    A Brighter Sunrise: more reforms in post-war Japan | WWII apologies, work culture, civil rights, no stagnant economy, digital tech

    That is fair enough.
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