From the article of 'Petrel'
No.579 / April 28, 1996
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Asahara's essence is the essence of this society
The bourgeois society has no qualification of "Judge"
The trial of Asahara started.
The bourgeois public opinion exposes the snobbery of Asahara as if it was something new, and is surprised and amazed "why many young people held in esteem and were attracted to such a man".
However, does this bourgeois society really have the qualification to criticize Asahara as "A swindler who is attached to money and power"?
If this society consists of the "attachment to money and power" and is ruled by such person (See Jusen [the housing finance specialty corporation], see the trouble of the harm of hemophilia patient by chemicals!), it is inevitable that such man as Asahara appears, so Asahara is only a typical person of this society and a mirror that reflects the nature of it.
Moreover, this bourgeois society cannot jeer Asahara's "Armageddon" and the consciousness of crisis.
Actually, the nations of the monopolistic capital are armed with thousands of nuclear weapons and these nuclear weapons amount to the quantity by which the human race can be killed many times.
That is, the human race at the present age is similar when living under "Damocles's sword".
It might be too clear that the bourgeois who produced the crisis cannot laugh at "Armageddon" as a fantasy in the world of such monopolistic capital to have conceived the crisis of the human race ruin.
Moreover, the bourgeois public opinion is surprised that many young people feel the charm in and are attracted to the swindler like Asahara, and believed in the unsubstantial speech and behavior.
They think, why is a person with somewhat scientific idea so easily caught to the trick of "Floatage in the air".
However, the reason is that a bourgeois society brought up a large amount of persons who particularly lack healthy judgment by the education, life, and a cultural environment and the bourgeois society is not exactly more than being frightened in the persons invented by itself.
After Hitler fell before, people doubted why the people in Germany believed in and made arrogant a person like Hitler.
Hitler as well as Asahara was criticized [by hindsight] as "the Satan of the Satan", but the people in Germany--including the wide workers who had become disillusioned to the false socialism, that is, the Stalinistic Communist Party -- believed in Hitler. If so, it can be said that the cause Asahara attracted the heart of many young people was also in this capitalist society, in the contradiction and the reactionary character and the emptiness of it..
To get rid of all person like Asahara, it must be settled first to overcome and eliminate this capital society completely corrupted. The bourgeois society has no qualification to criticize and judge Asahara, but rather to the opposite it must see the essence of itself just in Asahara..
Asahara's essence is the essence of this bourgeois society and his crime is the crime of this bourgeois society.