Fukumoto Kazuo

Fukumoto Kazuo ( Japanese 福 本 和 夫 ; * July 4, 1894 in Shimo-Hōjō , Kume-gun (today: Hokuei , Tōhaku-gun ), Tottori Prefecture ; † November 16, 1983 ) was a leading Marxist theorist of Japanese communism . His pseudonym was Hōjō Kazuo ( 北 条 一 雄 ).

Live and act

Fukumoto Kazuo studied law and political science at the Imperial University of Tokyo . He then taught at Matsue Higher School. From 1922 to 1924 he went on study trips to the USA and Europe. From the end of 1922 until the spring of 1923 he spent some time in Jena , where he made friends with the communist Karl Korsch . Fukumoto was also one of the participants in the Marxist Work Week at this time . In 1924 he came back to Japan, he became a member of the Communist Party, gave the paper to the Marxism party(マ ル ク ス 主義) and taught economics. His criticism of the established Marxism of a Yamakawa Hitoshi or Kawakami Hajime earned him the following of the younger generation. In April 1925 he was involved in the reactivation of the Communist Party in Tōkyō. In 1926 he became head of the political department, but in July 1927 he had to resign because of his criticism of the Comintern . In 1926 he had founded his own magazine entitled Under the Banner of Marxism . Two years later he was sentenced to ten years imprisonment in the course of the persecution of communists in Japan, and was even detained for 14 years.

After the Pacific War , Fukumoto was arrested by US authorities in 1951 and banned from working. In 1958 he was expelled from the Japanese Communist Party . He later wrote numerous treatises on the development of Japanese capitalism as well as on the problems of socialism.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ふ く も と か ず お . (No longer available online.) In: 鳥取 県 郷 土 人物 文献 デ ー タ ベ ー ス ( Eng . "Literature database of personalities from Tottori Prefecture"). Tottori Prefectural Library, archived from the original on April 21, 2014 ; Retrieved July 15, 2010 (Japanese). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  

Remarks

1. ↑ Later part of Shimane University.

literature

• S. Noma (Ed.): Fukumoto Kazuo . In: Japan. An Illustrated Encyclopedia. Kodansha, 1993, ISBN 4-06-205938-X , p. 427.
• Michael Buckmiller : The Marxist Work Week 1923 and the Foundation of the Institute for Social Research. In: Gunzelin Schmid Noerr , Willem van Reijen (ed.): Grand Hotel Abgrund. A photobiography of critical theory. Junius Verlag, Hamburg 1988, p. 152f.

Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . Thus Fukumoto is the family name, Kazuo the first name.