The following is the sequel of the preceding chapter.
The Comintern view of history didn't make capitalism an enemy only.
It made a colonialism, too, an enemy and it did egocentricity to “the imperialistic aggressive war view of history" and fixed upon the communism all "goodness", capitalism and colonialisms all "devilish".
The speech person who persisted in the historical perspective of "the development improvement" which develops into the imperialism and underwent the influence became anti-Japanese Japanese, Japanese having to do with masochism, and intellectual with progressive ideas.
The characteristic of the logic, solely, it is in comparing the ideal and the merit of the socialism against the reality and the defect of the capitalism.
To fix upon as "reactionary" or "fascist" for those who do not tune it was usual.
The socialist thought became the mainstream of the largest thought in the 20th century temporarily and held sway over the minds of the people.
As for Japan behind the Second World War, the left wing and the man of culture concentrated total power and aimed at the revolution of "the Japanese people democracy republic" but there was not success.
But oddly enough, to this day, it controls education and the mass media, and it continues to have an influence on the public opinion forming which diminishes Japan.
This article continues.