A Workers’ Paradise Found Off Japan’s Coast

Hime Island, one of the many bodies of land off the coast of Japan, has many marxist tendencies that seem to work well. For the past fourty nine years, it has only had two mayors and they are father and son. They are elected, but there are never any opposition. The idea is that opposition causes fractions among the people. A large part of the population works as low paid public servants, and the other people are fishermen or farmers. The article describes the island almost like a utopian society that has succeeded. It seems that in todays day and age, socialism has lost a lot of the negative stigma it once had. In the fifties, the author of this articlce would be called a "pinko" and might be fired. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/22/world/asia/22japan.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&ref=world