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Fukumotoism
was a Japanese Marxist and one of the most important theoreticians of the Japanese Communist Party during the 1920s. Biography Fukumoto was born in Tottori Prefecture to a moderately prosperous landowning family. He studied law at Tokyo Imperial University and became a lecturer at a high school after graduation. In 1922 he was sent to Europe to study law; there he familiarized himself with Marxism and joined the Communist Party of Germany. When he returned home in 1924 he joined a small communist group and became an editor for a small magazine simply called ''Marxism''. Fukumoto wrote numerous articles and was well known in left-wing circles for his interpretations of Marxism-Leninism and his criticism of other Japanese Marxist scholars, especially Yamakawa Hitoshi and Kawakami Hajime. His writing style was considered complex and he was more interested in the theoretical than the practical aspects of Socialism. Fukumoto called for the separation of true Marxist from false Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yamakawa Hitoshi
was a Japanese socialist intellectual, activist, and theorist. He was a central figure in the early Socialist thought in Imperial Japan, Japanese socialist movement and a co-founder of the first Japanese Communist Party in 1922. After breaking with the party a year later, he became the leader of the ''Rōnō-ha'' (Labor-Farmer Faction), a dissident group of Marxism, Marxist thinkers who challenged the Communist International, Comintern's thesis that Japan required a Two-stage theory, two-stage revolution. Born in Kurashiki into a family that had lost its wealth and status, Yamakawa developed a strong anti-authoritarian streak and a sense of social alienation during his youth. After dropping out of Doshisha University, Dōshisha, a Christian school where he was first exposed to socialist ideas, he was imprisoned for lèse-majesté in 1900. This experience proved transformative, and he emerged a dedicated revolutionary. Yamakawa joined the Japan Socialist Party (1906), Japan Socia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
