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darkknight109 posted...

Monopolies are antithetical to the core of capitalism because they stifle competition and short-circuit the laws of supply and demand.

One of the core arguments of capitalism is that the public is best served by multiple competitors striving to provide a single good or service. Each one will be pressure by market forces into offering the best quality for the lowest cost, else their competitors will outsell them. This model requires competition in order to function; where monopolies or monopsonies form, capitalism suffers because the laws of supply and demand are no longer in effect.

Supply and demand are in effect, but it is easily corrupted. This is not such an issue in Japan as they are collectivist traditionalists so are willing to completely shut out those who don't behave and work as a group to break them.

darkknight109 posted...

All you've basically said here is that right-wingers sometimes use left-wing behaviour and left-wingers sometimes use right-wing behaviour. The fact that right-wingers sometimes make use of it does not mean that collectivism is not a left-wing behaviour.

Left-wing behaviour. They behave as the environment demands, there's no set method, just a set goal.

darkknight109 posted...

It is not coincidence that collectivist societies also tend to have thriving socialist and/or communist parties or movements (as seen in Japan, as well as most other East Asian countries).

Japan has been lead by the same party, formed of two right-wing parties for the last, what, 60 years? The other options are fucking socialists, communists and the "let's just join China, guys!" party who all lose as Japan is not strongly socially left wing as you say.
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Scloud posted...
Its like he wants two things at the same time.