From the article of 'Petrel'
No.652 / November 2, 1997

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The capital corruption goes on without prospect

The granting of money in the pretext of lie is being detected one after another.
The adhesion of the fixer at a stockholders' meeting and the big enterprise was exposed.

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The rot of the enterprise of the manufacturing industry is being exposed subsequent to the bank and the securities firm. Almost all the big enterprises of the Mitsubishi line gave money to the fixers at stockholders' meeting and are going to be accused the crime of "the grant of profit."
And, the enterprises of the Hitachi Ltd. line began to be prosecuted following the Mitsubishi line.
It might be said that the pollution has extend to all the huge enterprises and the monopolistic capitals "representing Japan." The grant of money to the fixers at stockholders' meeting exposes the thing that how much the enterprise has rotted and how much the capitalism has been becoming to the stinking carrion. The enterprise has "the wound" in management and the rot and the scandal being embarrassed if pierced by the fixer at a stockholders' meeting very much.
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I wonder whether the capital at the present age has rotted from the basis.

As for the top of the manager of the big enterprise, it is a position the person envies, a high income is guaranteed, so it has been thought that they are the splendid persons of character. However, the heads of the department store, the food industry, and the bank and the securities firm first crushed such a fantasy. Next, the top of all the enterprises lost and is losing confidence now. So to speak the characters and the people representing the present society do so.

Moreover, they adopted a makeshift way of clever-handed (For instance, they misused "clever" way of the use fee of "See House") and we can see clearly the dirty speculation that it is well only not being revealed. What a trivial layman and what an ordinary, timid person the manager at the present age is!

They always make an excuse as the grant to the fixer at a stockholders' meeting is "for the company's sake." However, even if such as the manager's incapacity and "Scandal," are put out brightly or the stockholder rally continues long time by the fixer at a stockholders' meeting there is little embarrassed person excluding the top manager. So the words such as for the company only sound emptily.

Is it for the manager and for their self-preservation and profit rather than for the company? Do you say that the confidence of the company will drop, the client will turn away from the company, and it will exert the influence on the enterprise achievement and then affect ups and downs of the company if the private circumstances that the company is concealing are disclosed by the fixer at a stockholders' meeting?

However, if there are the failure of management, bad debt, scandalous, and various additional things hid secretly being embarrassed when pierced by the fixer at a stockholders' meeting, it is rather benefit for the company to reveal them, is it not? If they conceal the failure of management, such a company can do nothing but fall anyway, so it is clearly better that the defect is clarified and they make effort to solve and overcome it at once.

Such as the scandal of the manager and the family still less relate to the profit of the company. These kinds of things are only the personal problem of the manager and it ends by changing the manager. If the manager is negligent person, to expose it might be rather opposite than ruining the profit of the entire company.

Anyway, it looks like that the present enterprise dreads the fixer at a stockholders' meeting so that the frog may fear the snake, and they offer money very easily as if they cannot move by recoiling from the stare. We cannot do nothing but say that both the morality and the humanity of the manager have gone down to the ground. Does not or cannot any person become a manager if he is not a frail person nor crappy person, a snob who does not have any "Character" nor "Spirit" or is neither a mere self-regard ideologist, a powers ideologist nor a humble ambitious person? Anyway, I cannot help thinking whenever rots are revealed that the manager is just as defect person.

The working class can never be indifferent on that point because the money to the fixer at a stockholders' meeting is not only the money to the fixer at a stockholders' meeting but also to the crime organization and to the most reactionary power. The monopolistic capital of Germany accommodated and granted enormous amount of money for the fascism promotion before. As the fascism increased power and the more it approached powers, the more the expectation for the fascism as "the power opposing the working class and the communism" increased, and the money flowing from the monopolistic capital increased.

The problem might be not the moralistic corruption of the bourgeoisie but that the whole of capitalism has decayed and declined.

The big enterprise does not only have perished itself but also has perished the entire society by offering the abundant capitals to the "dark" power of this bourgeois society and bringing it up. It is natural that such as "the crime organization," the parasitic "anti-social power" like the boil of society if thinks by common sense does never disappear.

Marx insisted that bourgeoisie was also progressive at the rise period of capitalism and they repulsed uselessness or waste (because the impulse of capital accumulation drove them) but as the capital accumulation advanced and the more got to the step of making huge and monopoly, the more he became reactionary, liked luxury and waste, and promoted the reactionary.

The rot of the large capital might be an evidence that the rule of the capital declines and approaches more and more the times to become extinct. Any historical rule class also had been corrupting, rotting, and could do nothing when they finished the historical role and went out from the stage of the history as if to prove this itself. The aristocrat's class and the feudal power were also similar. In that sense, it is symbolical that the monopolistic capital is corrupting rapidly.

The contemporary public opinion always praises capitalism and free economy with denying socialism. They say as, "See the Soviet Union, the China!"

However, what is the essence of the capital rule, the free economy, and the market economy on the whole? Is not the recent rot of the enterprise just the essence? (Though, of course, all are rotting not only the enterprise but also the politics, the national mechanism, the bureaucrat, the ideology, and the education.)

The party who protects the rule of the capital treats the rot of enterprise (or the rot of nation or politics, and the rot of the intellectual) as not relating with the rule of the capital and the accidental inclination or mistake unrelated to this system, or as the Communist Party, discusses as if only Japan is special and it is because Japanese capitalism "does not keep the rule."

However, it might be a fantasy and nonsense at all.

The worker reduces all the rot and badness of the present society to the rule of the capital, and indicts and convicts as the result and the crime, and emphasizes this as the one never seen in the society of other historical communities. They were so in the past community society and might be so in the socialist society of the future.

It is extraordinary thing to insist such dirty evil doings to be universal in human society general, that is, to try to impute them to human nature.

Actually, who of the usual workers is doing the evil doing that the managers of the big enterprise are doing? From this alone, we cannot explain the crime of the contemporary enterprise (managers) from the human nature unrelated to the social system. It is exactly the thing arising from the social relation, that is, it is a crime of capitalism.

The reality of the rule of the capital is exposed every day. However, the voice to convict capitalism and to demand the revolutionary reformation is hardly heard even from the working class, and it seems as if the resignation and despair, or apathy and indifference are predominant; It might exclusively be the responsibility of the Communist Party. This party of the fake socialism has degenerated at the point that they follow to the capital system by expressing such as "the reformation in the frame of capitalism" as making socialism a signboard, and moreover, they protect and beautify the present system broadly as saying "Market economy" to be necessary.

The worker should raise a battle cry of the protest and the fight against the rule of the capital just now. The rule of the capital is corrupted more and more and is falling absurd one; it will be likely to invite a frightening disaster and unhappiness to the working class in the near future if leave it alone.