{"id":5185,"date":"2004-10-20T09:14:25","date_gmt":"2004-10-20T14:14:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.froginawell.net\/japan\/?p=16"},"modified":"2004-10-20T09:14:25","modified_gmt":"2004-10-20T14:14:25","slug":"halting-speeches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/2004\/10\/halting-speeches\/","title":{"rendered":"Halting Speeches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I will continue to post the odd passage I find here and there during my reading that I find particularly memorable.   In <a href=\"http:\/\/adgordon.net\/pages\/\">Andrew Gordon<\/a>&#8216;s <em>Labor and Imperial Democracy in Prewar Japan<\/em> there is an interesting section where he lists phrases from 15 speeches (out of 22 total) made at one rally of the S\u00f4d\u00f4mei&#8217;s Electric and Machine Worker&#8217;s Union that were halted by the police who attended.  The final phrases show nicely what kinds of words specifically brought action:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>1. <em>Capitalists<\/em> are&#8230;[halted]<br \/>\n2. We workers first <em>must destroy<\/em>&#8230;[halted]<br \/>\n3. <em>The only course is<\/em> to build the road to freedom with our own strength&#8230;[halted]<br \/>\n4. We have absolutely no freedom.  At dawn I had a dream.  I was advancing down the road to freedom carrying a sword, when I fell into a deep crevice.  This is <em>a crevice that captures<\/em> those who speak the truth&#8230;[halted]<br \/>\n5.  It is just <em>too irrational<\/em> for members of our own class [i.e., the police] to stand above us and repress us&#8230;[halted]<br \/>\n6. As Lenin said, &#8220;Those who do not work <em>will not eat<\/em>&#8230;[halted]<br \/>\n7. To discover how, and with what, <em>to destroy this system<\/em> is our objective&#8230;[halted]<br \/>\n8. In order to live we must <em>finally destroy<\/em> the present system&#8230;[halted]<br \/>\n9.  Together with all of you, I will devote all my strength to <em>the destruction of <\/em>everything&#8230;[halted]<br \/>\n10.  We <em>must destroy<\/em> capitalism&#8230;[halted]<br \/>\n11. In order to live we must attack capitalism at its roots; we <em>must entirely destroy<\/em> the existing social order&#8230;[halted]<br \/>\n12.  One after another the speakers have been <em>unjustly halted<\/em>&#8230;[halted]<br \/>\n13. <em>We must struggle against<\/em> those who oppose us&#8230;[halted]<br \/>\n14.  For example, a <em>revolution<\/em>&#8230;[halted]<br \/>\n15. The labor movement must move <em>to end the plunder<\/em> of capitalists&#8230;[halted] (136)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The phrases translated from a 1921 report cited in Gordon&#8217;s footnotes.  Gordon has noted in italics the final words in the original Japanese phrasing of each speech.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I will continue to post the odd passage I find here and there during my reading that I find particularly memorable. In Andrew Gordon&#8216;s Labor and Imperial Democracy in Prewar Japan there is an interesting section where he lists phrases from 15 speeches (out of 22 total) made at one rally of the S\u00f4d\u00f4mei&#8217;s Electric&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[119,136,201,205],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-labor","category-201","category-205"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9yoH3-1lD","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}