Why was there never a major socialist movement in meiji and post

There was, student activists in the 60's were heavily socialist and communist.

Japan is the most ironically pro-Communist country in the world. Their invasion of China led to the rise of the CCP, and their colonial legacy in Korea led to the establishment of North Korea.

>>1506197
Gommies get stabbed in Japan

>>1506246
And they got beheaded in china and burned in vietnam, but they still survived.

>>1506261
its a shame, isn't it?

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>Hey guy, want to take part in our Commie militia? We're going to do things like bomb some embassy in Rome, terrorize Tel-Aviv and hijack a few passenger planes to Pyongyang

I wonder why it never caught on too

>>1506261
They did, but the Japanese basically left anarchy behind when they stopped occupying, and the actual governments had been so obliterated they no longer had the ability to resist the commies