What's a good Marxist take on Valentine's Day? http://www.spoon-tamago.com/2015/02/09/kakumei-teki-himote-doumei-the-revolutionary-grouping-of-men-that-women-are-not-attracted-to/ -------------------------snip On February 14th, *Kakumei-teki himote doumei* <http://kakuhidou.fumizuki.net/> (革命的非モテ同盟) — literally, “Revolutionary Alliance of Men That Woman Are Not Attracted To”– will gather in Shibuya, an area of Tokyo popular with young couples, to protest Valentine’s Day and its roots in what they call “romantic capitalist oppression.”
The group, known as *Kakuhidou* for short, was started in 2006, when its founder, Katsuhiro Furusawa, returned home one day after being dumped by his girlfriend and began reading the Communist Manifesto. He quickly came to the realization that being unpopular with girls is a class issue. Since then, the group has held several demonstrations each year, all coinciding with holidays that are associated with romantic love in Japanese culture, such as Valentine’s Day, Christmas, and White Day .
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