From the article of 'Petrel'
No.661 / January 11, 1998

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The New Frontier Party was dissolved to turn to a new ferment!

The spoiled members of the Diet who run about in confusion.
Only the class principle is true.


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The political situation moves largely. The New Frontier Party was dissolved and was dismantled into six parties. Ozawa fell from the party leader of "the first opposition party" of 173 persons to the party leader of a small party of only 54 persons. The Democratic Party of Kan was received the beauty name of the first opposition party with no pains and the ambition of Kan is also swelling up at once. As for the members of the Diet of the Komeito and the Democratic Socialist Party, the majority are returning to the old home in a fluster with coming short of their expectation to share powers by staying with a large political party. Though the party who did not return to the original old home was sucked to the Ozawa's reactionary politics, they probably did so with thinking that they can rise more fast in the political world when staying in Ozawa. Moreover, though the new movement of the political party reorganization is also starting immediately, these all are only concerning interests and powers. It might be the figure of the dwarf bourgeois and petty bourgeois politician who have been rotted from the core heart and are running about in confuse.
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The thing that Ozawa became independent with only his "relatives" means that his strategy up to now has failed.

The strategy was the one to bundle the power opposed the Liberal-Democratic Party to an united body exactly as maneuver and to plunder the seat of powers. And, these tries succeeded at the moment four years ago. Because the Komeito and the Democratic Socialist Party and the foolish Socialist Party also became getting on the try. (It was one of the inevitabilities that these political parties "got on" it. Because we can never say indiscriminately that these "moderate" political parties are more "left" than the Liberal-Democratic Party politically.)

However, such politics of maneuver, politics of Machiavellism, politics of trickery was exposed the limit and has collapsed at once. Because the reason that Ozawa insists anti-LDP (the Liberal-Democratic Party) is not really opposite to the politics of the Liberal-Democratic Party but only wanting to grasp again the powers expeled in his hand, and moreover, to have rallied even the parties that are quite different from his thought and politics without any rule and with opportunism only to collect the number. It was the opportunity that the Socialist Party having felt too much "insulted" deserted Ozawa, and has united with the Liberal-Democratic Party.

Though Ozawa tried to carry out the maneuver politics by strewing the dream of acquiring the powers after that, but the Ozawa's maneuver politics came to a deadlock as it was exposed that the powers' recapture was not so easy.

Ozawa has thrown the maneuver politics away now, and bets on the Hoho Rengo (the conservative union), that is, bets on the total concentration of the reactionary sects. He succeeded to "take in" a part of the old Komeito and the old Japan Democratic Socialist Party to the new, Free Party. However, the "Favorite" is the reactionary sect and "the conservative sect" in the Liberal-Democratic Party naturally.

Everyone knows that the party who sent a strong love call to Ozawa succeeded one another also in the Liberal-Democratic Party. There are many politicians such as Nakasone or recent Kamei who feel disgusted at the union with the Shamin Party (the Social Democratic Party) and with the Sakigake.

Just therefore, the Ozawa's Free Party is again the bomb, and it has the possibility to evoke the division of the Liberal-Democratic Party with the power of dismantling the New Frontier Party. Moreover, Ozawa's "Political life" can do nothing but end without doing so, without succeeding in this maneuver. It is the reason even Ozawa can do nothing but become desperate.

However, nevertheless, what was the try of the New Frontier Party or the party politics of these several years on the whole?

All political parties and all politicians go this way and that without own belief during that. Many political parties have the ups and downs, and politicians were wandering in one or another political parties, too. There was a political party like the Shamin Party, which united with Ozawa to arrive to the seat of powers, united with the Liberal-Democratic Party this time to have kept sitting consistently on the seat of powers, too. The Shamin Party is just the only political party that stayed on the seat of powers almost these days indeed. The Liberal-Democratic Party is unseated from the seat of powers in the first half, and in the latter half, Ozawa and his fellows have tasted thoroughly the wretchedness at the position of the opposition party being out in the cold this time.

However, I wonder whether the Shamin Party (the old Socialist Party) had the one having become something plus, had obtained something by keeping staying on in the seat of powers. After all, this party obtained the seat of powers in exchange for losing its political life and it has fallen thoroughly. This might be "the one needle of the top gate" (a proverb to mean a keen precept) for all the "Join-cabinet ideologist" and "Millerandist" (Including the Communist Party also), who enters bourgeois Cabinet professing for socialisms and anti-establishments.

There has never been such foolish political party as this party at all, but it was not by chance but an inevitable road that the petty bourgeois political party traced. They lost the "original" role (of serving to bourgeoisie indirectly), therefore, lost the existence meaning by falling to the political party that supports the rule of the capital directly. Although there is a "large political party" such as the Liberal-Democratic Party, why is there the need for another Liberal-Democratic Party?

The roles that the Socialist Party has played are passing into the hand of the Democratic Party partially and a part to the hand of the Communist Party. As for the party such as the Democratic Party and the Communist Party, there is not any difference essentially in the point to volunteer the role that supports the Liberal-Democratic Party politics, that is, the class rule of bourgeoisie by the shadow quietly with advocating to opposite the Liberal-Democratic Party in the lip service. Though they are not the one to protect the rule of the capital plainly, they all do it actually.

The act of the one age of the New Frontier Party Ozawa's maneuver politics got off.

He summarizes that the New Frontier Party was "Failure," and talks about "the politics based on the principle, the political party of the people who are similar in their thought and route" even after such a long time. However, is it to confess himself how negligent politics he has done up to now to discourse such things now? And, on what "Principle" will such a party do politics based in the future? Does what "in-principle" politics remain besides if it is not a reactionary nationalism?

Though the New Frontier Party has been dismantled, what is coming next? I wonder if the Ozawa's strategy will succeed even in some measure, the Hoho Rengo (the union of the conservatives) will be formed, and will come the age of the conservative politics, the reactionary politics of plainness to which the nationalism and the "free" (that is, at-will) rule of the capital are sung aloud?

It is extremely possible because the whole of the capital's rule moves along the direction of "making conservative" and making reactionary now. Ozawa is only maneuvering to get on the flow foreseeing the tendency.

The first challenge of Ozawa failed. However, Ozawa who was not able to achieve the own ambition by maneuver is trying to pursue the ambition still now by a more decisive or more "in-principle" way.

He will talk more and more by an own real intention and promote the reactionary politics plainly in the future. If Ozawa would not do, who else would do? Ozawa is deeply conscious that he cannot cut his way except advancing along this direction.

However, it is good though if a plain, reactionary politics of the bourgeoisie appears openly. The worker does not dread such things at all and knows that these kind of things are one inevitable in the base of this capitalism. The worker just does not know that, but also knows how to fight against it, how to break down it well.

The bankruptcy of the New Frontier Party is the failure of the bourgeois political parties (politicians) and the petty bourgeois political parties (politicians) to participate in it without any rule to go by. It also clarified that only the worker's class principle is true, only the political party of the worker who stands steadily in the standpoint will be able to acquire the trust of the public and to fight to the last minute consistently by opposing the capital's political party and the government.

The time when the reactionaries are concentrating and being reinforced is also the time when the counteroffensive of the working class is begun and the class struggle develops. The age when the contradiction of capitalism is completely exposed might be the age when the reactionary gains power, and the age when the class struggle of the worker develops, too. It is exactly such a historical reality that we base on.