Marx, Lenin face ax; SDF to get nod The Japanese Communist Party on Tuesday proposed temporarily recognizing the existence of the Self-Defense Forces and revising the party's constitution to drop a preamble that upholds Marxism-Leninism.
Tetsuzo Fuwa, chairman of the JCP Presidium, proposed the revision at the seventh Central Committee Plenum of the JCP, held at party headquarters in Tokyo.
In the proposed new constitution, the preamble, which states that the JCP "is the vanguard political party of the Japanese working class," and upholds Marxism-Leninism, which it calls "scientific socialism," will be dropped as its theoretical basis. The proposal would also eliminate the words "socialist revolution" from the party constitution.