Re: [Marxism] specter switches parties

[Eli Stephens <elishastephens@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

>Seems to me political conditions are maturing for a serious left/communist  
>body politic in America

Well, it's happening in Japan, or so says the Guardian:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/apr/27/japanese-communist-party-resurgence



                


    
                    
        


                




        



            



                        
                                
               
                        
                                
        
                
        
            

        
        
                        
        
        
        
                                
                                                        
                                                
                                Disgruntled Japanese turn to resurgent 
communists
                                                        
                                                        Web-savvy Japanese 
Communist party's message of welfare and jobs lures young voters away from 
sleazed-mired political mainstream.
                                
                                        
        
                                



    
                
                

            

        





    




        
                        Faced with an
economy in steep decline, rising unemployment and an uncertain future,
a growing number of Japanese are shunning the conservative consensus
and turning instead to a new brand of cuddly communism.
While the leaders of Japan's
two main political parties battle poor opinion poll ratings and
accusations of sleaze, the Japanese Communist party (JCP) has seen its
fortunes transformed after years of being dismissed as an irrelevant
hangover from the cold war.
In the last 16 months membership has
soared to more than 410,000 as the revamped party courts younger voters
from the working poor.

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Eli Stephens
 Left I on the News
 http://lefti.blogspot.com


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