Socialism & Ecology in Japan-Look back to '47

[Brad De Long]

>  > After which things went rather well, at least as far as real wages
>>  and personal liberties were concerned.
>>
>>  To speak of U.S. post-WWII reconstruction policy in Japan as a
>>  fascist coup seems to me to miss most of the point...
>>
>>
>>  Brad DeLong
>
>What is the point then ? Can you be a little more specific ? Personnaly I
>don't think what Tim wrote is missing any point. Well, maybe calling the US
>support to fascists a counter-revolution is a little too much since there was
>no revolution going on at this time

Fascist counter-revolutions produce fascist regimes. Japan since 
World War II has not been a fascist regime. As a society and a polity 
Japan has many flaws, but they should not lead one to ignore that 
Japan is the most developed and most prosperous (save perhaps for 
Singapore) society in Asia, and the most democratic.

To claim that Japan since World War II has been "fascist" makes as 
much sense as to claim that Kim Il Sung's dictatorship was the 
legitimate regime for all Korea, or to claim that I am a racist.

Brad DeLong