ProleWiki has been made aware that there is a severe lack of ML theory in Japanese. To that end, we are interested in opening a Japanese-language instance of ProleWiki and are looking for people to join this project. So far we have one, maybe 2 interested comrades.
In the first phase, we are interested in translating, proofreading and then uploading marxist theory on the new instance.
Down the line you can also of course make other content pages for this instance, such as party pages, but maintaining a language instance is a lot of work so that’s why we’ve reduced it to the most fundamental aspects (the three tasks above). We can set up the instance for you and explain how to upload books (it’s really easy once you got the hang of it), I just need to know if some people are interested and able to put in some time for this.
Pro-tip: you can easily translate whole books with AI (I can explain how if you join the discord, it’ll be easier to do this with everyone). But you still need to proofread it, especially with a language like Japanese. But at least it cuts down on like 90% of the work.
If you’re interested --> join the discord and mention this post in vetting (you will still have to answer the questions) https://discord.gg/ZQTBNRU9v5
Hey i dont speak japanese, but have you considered emailing the japanese communist party and asking then if they want to help? Dont they run like a newpaper or something this seems right up their alley. Altho im not sure if theyre actually gonna allign politically or not i have heard these days they arent as communist as they used to be.
The JCP is exactly why we’re doing this; we want to bring actual theory to the masses of Japan lol
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Dont they run like a newpaper
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There’s probably some people in the party who are ML and don’t follow the party line that can help
I don’t really think that this is the case, especially nowadays. There might be MLs in Japan, but at most they’ve probably moved to the only ML party in Japan I’m aware of, the Japanese Workers’ Communist Party, but even they seemingly hold questionable positions. I don’t live in Japan though, so take anything I say with a grain of salt.
They’re last I heard absolutely neutered. Follow the US imperialist line and are a joke. I am not an expert or Japanese this is just from recollections on discussions I’ve seen about them in the past.
It makes sense, Japan has been occupied by the US since 1945 and they crushed and killed the original communist movement and have kept a veritable dictatorship of the LDP or whatever running for quite some time.
I have studied Japanese and have enough credit hours to minor in it, but I don’t know much specialist language I know. I could try to work on learning more, if this is a longer-term process, but if you’re looking to get this done quick, I probably can’t learn in time.
It could be a way for you to study Japanese again if you wanted to. Whether your level would be sufficient for this I’m not sure as I don’t speak the language, but you can join our discord just in case in preparation.
In my experience the ‘specialist’ language regarding theory is usually the same words that pop up again and again. Dictatorship of the proletariat, revolution, etc. There’s usually only one way to translate them. If you give the AI the key sheet to these terms it will always translate them the same way. The goal for us is to do this with care, of course, but we also want to make that theory available en masse because from what I understand very little of it actually exists in Japanese, and what does was translated by trotskyists and other revisionists.
