The Japanese Communist Party took 9 seats in Sunday’s election, with almost 5 million votes (7% of the total). Astonishing that they could be so successful in a developed and supposedly well educated country such as Japan. Ampontan has a great post describing the Communist Manifesto (and poking plenty of holes in it…):
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