From the article of 'Petrel'
No.658 / December 14, 1997

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//Editorial// Falsehood of "Humanism"

For what is the land mine prohibition?



They say that Japan has decided to participate in the agreement completely prohibit from the possession of antipersonnel land mines to the transfer.

Though the bourgeois, liberal public opinion and the petty bourgeois public opinion are in high spirits, I wonder whether there is really something to please us sincerely here.

It is said that the Japanese government decided participation by thinking about various conditions though they had hesitated very much until participation. I do not know what did they think about, but I can imagine the approximate. Moreover, the bourgeois public opinion leaks their real intention "carelessly."

For instance, they are talking openly as the "Defense system" of Japan will not be made a big hole even if there is no land mine, as they can develop new arms that take the place of the land mine. Their worry is only whether they can defend Japan "effectively" without using the land mine, so they think that they can beat and defeat before the army of foreign country would land to Japan if they enhance such as the fighter and the battleship further. Moreover, is the time the army of foreign country lands to Japan just the time Japan is defeated virtually at the war?

Thus, the Japanese bourgeoisie manages to agree with the antipersonnel land mines prohibition agreement; They also understand that this is useful very much for the deception of the working class by lying as they are the class also loving peace.

Moreover, they can cajole the foolish "Reformist," deceive and cheat the fact that they are steadily fostering a powerful army, too.

The standpoint of the Japanese capital is the standpoint of all nations participating in this agreement, that is, they know that the basis's of their class rule does not face the difficulty or the crisis even in some measure even if participating in this agreement, or, they believe that such as the land mine is an old-fashioned arms already and they can develop more modern and "effective" arms.

It is symbolical that almost all the large countries named the United States, Russia, China, India, and Pakistan do not participate in this prohibition agreement.

These nations are the powerful countries bearing arms even to the teeth, therefore, also the land mine possession large country, too. Especially, the nations named China or Russia or India adjoining other nations does not have the intention so far to abandon the use of the land mine as an inexpensive, important arms to defend the vast border.

They recognize what is the necessity for them to rule the world well as the rule person of the imperialist nation.

The huge nations in the world do not participate, the participant are only the small and medium nations, "the petty bourgeois nations." Moreover, if the participating nations do the best to develop alternative arms as Japan -and they will develop it- for what is the antipersonnel land mine prohibition on the whole?

Moreover, it is laughingstock because it is limited to antipersonnel land mines and the land mine targetting such as the tank, the armor car, and the truck will be excluded. It is the one carried out by the petty bourgeois "Humanism" from first to last. In short, though the arms to kill and wound man at peace are bad, but the arms (the antitank land mine etc.) used in the imperialist war and in the reactionary war for interests of the bourgeois nation are excluded. Do not talk a joke!

The civicist will be never able to explain reasonably why the antitank land mine is excluded.

It is not a chance at all that the petty bourgeois of small country is the promoter of such a movement.

Do you say that it is bad because it kills and wounds the noncombatant even at the time without war thogh it does not kill and wound combatant?

However, it is as if unquestionable in case of the arms killing and wounding combatant, and the war that the bourgeoisie does and the war to "defend" the nation are right, and it is possible to protect the arms for that as much as they like.

If so, there is no reason to prohibit the land mine absolutely because it is evident that this is a splendidly useful arms for "National defense", too. You, the civicist who are ardent to prohibit the land mine are self-contradictory from the beginning.

If you want to base on humanism seriously and to try to make humanism thorough, it is clear you cannot stay only in the land mine prohibition. Why do you stay only in the land mine prohibition and do not reinforce the agreement of this prohibition to no permission of the development of arms that takes the place of it? Even if you win the land mine prohibition but the development of more "effective" and stronger arms that takes the place of it is leaving loose, for what is the land mine prohibition on the whole? Do you only help the modernization and making powerful of arms by the class nation from the side?

The arms such as the land mine is a side issue and an unimportant detail from the whole of arms that the imperialist has. The imperialist will not care a bit about the land mine prohibition, that is, they are not even painful at all. (It is as if they would not feel painful but a bit itchy, if they would be bitten by a mosquito.)

If the civicist corners the militarist and the nationalist, and makes all their main arms abandoned and disarmament them, we will also try to praise their great undertakings. However, there is not such things at all, and might not hereafter either.

Just therefore, we the conscious workers do not confide and beautify such as the "works" of the civicist and the reformist at all. -Now, the Communist Party, that is, the degenarte Starlinist also carry out campagin only on the same level as them- On the contraly, we try to expose the limit and the stunted.

Though the prohibition of the land mine is an improvement certainly, but it is a too stunted improvement. So, if such things are beautified, it is an improvement that is more good not to be. Just therefore, such as the Nobel prize that is given to the person who is "great" and "splender" as a bourgeois might be given to the activist of civicist who was ardent to this movement but thoroughly ignorant and complacent.

Such improvement achieves the "modernization" of arms and trys to make it more powerful actually with pretending disarmament after the shadow of the empty talk of humanism. It eclipses such imperialist's intention, averts and disarms the worker's caution and struggle mind, and thus it serves to the bourgeoisie.

The workers appeal for the abandonment not only antipersonnel land mines but also the all arms under the control of capital and imperialist.