The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-03
By AKIMoTo
I'm China Forum, Shanghai)

I'm China Forum, ShanghaD
JAPANESE social democracy has positively out
) done itself by its cynical and indescribably
impudent propagation of the ideals of japanese
imperialism. Not only has Japanese social dem
ocracy shown itself as the lackey Of the most
reactionary regime and policy in existence, this
social democracy who hitherto roasted in police
stations and large business firms, but it is nov
appearing in the garb of preacher of great ma
tional ideals" and is singing the praises of the
Mikado, the predatory Japanese finance capital
and the bestiaI military clique. S.
Socialist Invasion
At the beginning Of the predatory occupation
of Manchuria the general secretary of the Sia-
kai Minsei-to social democratic party, declared
THE Intervention in Manchuria is not of an
imperialistic nature, because even socialist
Japan will have to fight for the necessary raw
material for its industry, whereas it is now in
the hands of America Great Britain and
Russia"
How can there be any talk about the indie
pendence OF the Chinese people, when Japanese
capitalism stands in need Of coal iron, shells
and guns, when it stands in need of big sharp
knife to be plunged at the convenient moment
into the body of the U. S. S. r. when it stands
in need of iron teeth to fight its rivals in the
arena of world plumber? Eyes scratched out,
heads torn off, children murdered, women vio-
lated, thousands of the poorest Chinese dying.
japanese workers and peasants converted into
executioners of their own and other peoples
freedom,-au this is socialism Ia Mikado, all
this is justice personifiedl
- Imperialism is capitalistic and at the same
time national because Imperialism has not only
amn1assed wealth for It's bourgeosie, but has also
raised the standard of living of the people of
the whole country"
So. class party and, at the same
time national party, in the sense that our
aim is to build up socialist Japan" (Kaidzo,
December, 1881.
They have the nerve to write about improve
ments in the standard of life of the workers by
imperialism at time when hunger, poverty and
unemployment have become a scourge in all
capitalist countries, when millions of workers
and peasants in japan are deprived Of their
last handful of rice, when the unemployed are
dying Of starvation in the streets and deprived
OF all assistance The japanese textile workers
locked up in the barracks of the employers like
white slaves, receive pitiful is yen per month
This is described asa Improvement of the
situation"
Right" to Murder
The organ Of the social democratic League OF
Women ''Minsui-Fud1n" wrote on December 25.
1881:
n 6OlublOh Lll6 OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
question makes 1t absolutely necessary to
abolish the capitalist system. Our rights and
interests in Manchuia and Mongolia con-
quered at the cost Of great sacrifices by the
proletariat, must of course be given only to
the proletariat. Socialist control over rights
and interests in Manchura and Mongolia is
therefore a just demand"
What are these rights and interests" spoken
OF by these friends Of Vandervelde, the same
Vsndervelde who naturally favors the counter
revolutionary and predatory alliance of Japanese
and French imperialism. They are the right"
Of Japanese imperialism to look on the Chinese
as beasts to declare China to be merely geo
graphical conception" They are the right" to
violate and torment millions of people, the
right to trarnple on all the national rights Of
those who, to their great misfortune are too near
to Japanese bayonets. They are the right" to
attack the o. S. s. RI
Socialist control" to them means open COL
liberation with imperialist and counter-reVolu-
tionary banditism Japanese Imperialism in
tends to carry out the annexation OF Manchuria
on behalf Of the late Chinese emperor Pu-yi, the
degenerate Of the sing-song houses, Japanese
social-democracy is thirsting to put its socialist
label on the mandarin's cap.
Aid Dictatorship
And is 1t to be wondered at that these knights
Of the II International directly participated In
the recent plot OF the miItarists, attempting
and not without Success-to strengthen still
further the dictatorship and the iron heel of the
generals? These socal-democrats Joined in the
conspiracy which was led by the present Minister
OF War, and which provided for the murder of
all revolutonaries in the prisons.
This was announced by the father-n-law OF
the social democratic leader Akamatsu, professor