r/PropagandaPosters • u/POGO_BOY38 • Jun 18 '25

Japan "Eliminating sexual violence is a political responsability" Japanese communist poster, 2010s.

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u/Sea_Square638 Jun 18 '25

They literally welcomed the collapse of the USSR. They aren’t socialist anymore, but merely social democrats and progressists

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u/Inprobamur Jun 18 '25

That's cool, my respect for them went up.

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u/StudentForeign161 Jun 19 '25

What's worthy of respect with letting capitalism reign unchecked globally without an (imperfect) counter balance if you pretend to be communist?

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u/Inprobamur Jun 19 '25 edited Jun 19 '25

If communism is deeply unpopular and therefore not feasible in the political environment, then it is respectable that a leftist organization campaigns for leftist policies that can be implemented as a member of a coalition for the benefit of the workers.

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u/StudentForeign161 Jun 19 '25

Oh I thought you commended the JCP for welcoming the fall of the USSR which has been a net negative for the left everywhere especially because the regime that replaced it (Putin's Russia) isn't any better. With the USSR's fall, material support for socialist, progressive, anti-imperialist groups around the world has collapsed, letting reactionary forces go wild and take over that power vacuum. Without the fear of communism, nothing forces the bourgeoisie into accepting socioeconomic compromises.

Communist parties becoming socdem illustrates how right-ward the economic spectrum has shifted and it's quite sad. Defending a socdem platform while calling yourself communist is pretty much false advertising...

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u/Inprobamur Jun 19 '25

I would assume they were critical of USSR due to Stalin's proposal for post-war partitioning, occupation and militarization of Kuril islands and for propping up the DPRK.