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Podcast: The Cosmopolitan
Episode: Long Reads: Japan's Socialist Tradition w/ Kenji Hasegawa
Description: Podcast: Jacobin Radio (LS 60 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)Episode: Long Reads: Japan's Socialist Tradition w/ Kenji HasegawaPub date: 2023-07-13Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationJapan may be a powerhouse of global capitalism. But it also developed a powerful socialist movement in the twentieth century. During the Cold War, the Socialist Party led the opposition to the ruling Liberal Democrats. Japan today still has a Communist Party with a mass membership and a serious electoral base.Kenji Hasegawa joins Long Rea...