At 06:54 PM 12/7/2004, you wrote:
>If American leftists had built a mass political party on the left, instead
>of supporting the Democratic Party, they could have developed and
>sustained a newspaper like the _Akahata_, a daily newspaper published by
>the Japanese Communist Party, which does talk about all of life, including
>but not at all limited to "cooking, sports, jobs, relationships, books,
>music" -- you can see a cooking recipe in a photograph of the Sunday
>edition of the _Akahata_ at the bottom of
><http://www.jcp.or.jp/akahata/week/index.html>.
>
>No mass political party on the left -> no mass-circulation daily newspaper
>on the left.
>
>Yoshie
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