This essay, dated November 25, 2019, is based on an article by Masayuki Takayama published in Shukan Shincho.
It discusses Nobuto Hosaka, Yoshito Sengoku, Mao Zedong, the Vietnamese Communist Party, and Karl Marx, criticizing the essence of communism as lack of remorse, attachment to power, and an extension of white supremacism.

November 25, 2019.
However, even in a non-white country, if communists take power, the regime becomes one that, like white people, is unmoved whether it crushes the people or misgoverns.
That is where the reason lies for why Chinese people want to become Communist Party members.
The following is from an article by Masayuki Takayama, which closes this week’s issue of Shukan Shincho.
Being called “Communist Party.”
It used to be said that communism is like measles, something everyone catches when young.
For some reason I did not catch it, but I do know a man who became infatuated with communism while still a junior high school student.
That man is Nobuto Hosaka, now settled in as mayor of Setagaya Ward.
When he was at Kojimachi Junior High School, this man joined the ML faction, distributed leaflets inside the school, shouted for the destruction of the cultural festival, and even launched an assault.
Even so, he was allowed to graduate, but every one of the many high schools he applied to rejected him.
He was not bright.
Later, he learned that his internal school report had honestly described his conduct inside the school.
So he convinced himself that he had been rejected because of his ideology and beliefs, and sued the Tokyo Metropolitan Government.
The lawyer who took his side was Yoshito Sengoku.
He was an activist of the Socialist League, and when he was chief cabinet secretary in the Kan administration, he was the man who arbitrarily released the Chinese captain who had rammed a patrol vessel off the Senkaku Islands.
The trial went all the way to the Supreme Court, but it was judged that the reason he had failed was, after all, the quality of his intellect.
It seems that communists are characterized by wanting to blame others for their own inadequacy, or, as was written in his internal school report, by “having no spirit of reflection.”
Mao Zedong was similar.
He ordered the Great Leap Forward policy, saying, “Increase the production of both rice and iron and catch up with the United States.”
Up to that point it was fine, but then he said unnecessary things such as “plant twice as many seedlings in the paddies” and “exterminate the sparrows that eat rice.”
If seedlings are planted too densely, the harvest is instead cut in half.
If sparrows disappear, pests run rampant.
Famine spread, and 70 million people died.
Mao had no remorse.
He boasted, “Corpses make good fertilizer for the fields,” and did not even allow graves to be made.
When I traveled in Hunan Province, bamboo was growing thickly from earthen pipes at the edges of fields.
They were everywhere.
I was told that they were graves where people had been secretly buried.
What is good about such communism?
They say, “The good thing is that everything is shared equally.”
Around the time of the 1970 Anpo protests, both Minsei and Zenkyoto used “the sharing of women” as their trump card for recruitment.
They used that to lure male and female students who were unpopular.
At Waseda University’s Law Building No. 1, or somewhere like it, futons were laid out even in the daytime and orgies were taking place.
In those days, there were no attractive women among the Zenkyoto fighters.
Ayako Daidoji of the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries bombing incident was said to be an exception.
Vietnam, whose capital Hanoi has love hotels, called nha nghi, on a scale like Shibuya’s Maruyamacho, is also in fact ruled by the Communist Party.
When I asked why communism, Nguyen Thi Thi told me, “During the war against the United States, if we said we were communist, the Eastern bloc countries were pleased and gave us aid.”
She was the first person to cross the 17th parallel as a representative of the Viet Cong and go to meet Ho Chi Minh.
But why does it still remain under Communist Party rule now?
“This country has long been run by women.
Men had no resourcefulness.
When we entrusted the government to men as a pose toward the Eastern bloc countries, they have clung to power ever since.
Communism allows even such absurdity to pass,” she answered clearly.
That absurdity is what Mao Zedong once demonstrated, and what Xi Jinping is now doing in Hong Kong and the Uyghur region.
However, I do not really understand why they, including Hosaka, as yellow people, believe in Marx.
In a letter addressed to Lincoln after he won the Civil War, Marx said that if black slaves produced a white proletariat, that would be bad.
If not, then it would not matter.
Regarding the United States, he envied it, saying, “There is infinite land and everyone can own land,” and “they do not have to become a proletariat.”
His understanding was that it was only natural for indigenous peoples to be exterminated in the same way as prairie dogs.
Marx’s theory is founded on white supremacism.
However, even in a non-white country, if communists take power, the regime becomes one that, like white people, is unmoved whether it crushes the people or misgoverns.
That is where the reason lies for why Chinese people want to become Communist Party members.
At the recent House of Councillors Budget Committee, the prime minister heckled Hideya Sugio, who also receives support from the Communist Party, by saying “Communist Party.”
This became a serious matter that interrupted deliberations.
“Communist Party” is a proper political party name.
Newspapers also write things like “Communist Party Chairman Shii.”
Does the sound of the phrase contain, for example, echoes of lacking remorse, lacking resourcefulness, or being unpopular?
I would like to ask how Shii feels about it.