Fumiko Kaneko sits on her knees wearing a striped kimono with her hands clasped in front of her, staring intently ahead. c. 1925, author unknown [Wikipedia]
Fumiko Kaneko, born on this day in 1903, was a Japanese anarchist, nihilist, and opponent to Japanese imperialism in Korea. Fumiko is perhaps best remembered for her "The Prison Memoirs Of A Japanese Woman", written while imprisoned after being convicted of high treason against the Japanese government.
Together, Fumiko and her Korean partner Pak Yol published two magazines which highlighted the problems Koreans faced under Japanese imperialism and showed influences of their radical politics. Sometime between 1922 and 1923, they also established a group called "F"utei-sha (Society of Malcontents)", which Fumiko identified as a group for direct action against the government.
These activities soon brought Pak and Fumiko under government scrutiny. In September 1923, the Japanese government therefore made a number of arrests, mostly Koreans, on limited evidence, and among those arrested were Pak and Fumiko.
After lengthy judicial proceedings, Fumiko and Pak were convicted of high treason for attempting to obtain bombs with the intention of killing the emperor or his son. They were both sentenced to life in prison, however Fumiko allegedly committed suicide in her cell in 1926.
Here is a short excerpt from one of Fumiko's interrogations while imprisoned (text by Max Res from theanarchistlibrary.org):
Q: Your class?
A: A divine commoner.
Q: How are you employed?
A: My job is tearing down everything that currently exists.
The Prison Memoirs Of A Japanese Woman
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Was watching more videos from the cushvlog playlist. I find the idea that "Trump doesn't understand what capitalism is" interesting, because it's like yeah, Trump isn't interested in preserving capitalism and he is just using the state apparatus to achieve personal goals and whatever. I always thought his actions are straight up copying Mussolini/Hitler and maybe that's not far off from the truth. He's not becoming fascist because of some historical law where the US goes into Nazi-style fascism, but he's mimicking the Nazi-style fascism. I think he does that because he's not capable of creating a new vision that he believes in. Same with most modern day fascists. He even uses the same language as them like "purging the Marxists from the government" when there are obviously no Marxists in the government if you actually understand what a marxist is.
The tech bro oligarchy do have a different vision though, and I could see them influencing the government to shape that vision. How that will collide and resolve with the Nazi-style fascists (we already saw a glimpse of it in the h-1b debate) I guess remains to be seen.
I have no clue if I'm being coherent, just some random ramblings I had.
This is just an idealistic way of viewing things. Trump is protecting his class interests and the class interests of his government and is ultimately in the hands of Capital. This arrangement preceded 20th century European fascism and so making comparisons of Trump to those figures is just muddying the waters in people's minds, if you associate Trump with the dead and buried fascists that USAmericans learn about in school then people will be apathetic.
In a way, you're right. Trump implicitly wants people to see him as a fascist, as a heel who the audience can boo. At the end of the day it's all kayfabe and great man theory that works in the US's favor, If Trump is the enemy then that means USAmerica isn't your enemy.