John Crump. The Origins of Socialist Thought in Japan.

CONTENTS

Introduction

PART ONE

TO THE END OF THE RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR (1905)

1 – THE DEVELOPMENT OF CAPITALISM IN JAPAN AND THE FORMING OF A WORKING CLASS

The Revolution of 1868

Industrialisation

The Forming of a Working Class

Oppression by the State

2 – POPULISM (NARODNISM) AND OTHER RUSSTAN INFLUENCES

Western Sources

First News of ‘Socialisn’

The ‘People’s Rights Movement’

Russian Populism

Tolstoy

The Russo-Japanese War

3 – STUDYING AT THE FEET OF KUROPEAN SOCIAL-DEMOCRACY

Sakai Yuzaburo

‘Authorities’ on ‘Socialism’

False Optimism

The SPD

European Social-Democracy and the Russo-Japanese War

Marx and Engels

4 – INFLUENCES FROM ENGLISH-SPEAKING COUNTRIES – AMERICA, BRITAIN, NEW ZEALAND

Japanese Students in America

Christianity and ‘Socialism’

Shying Away from the Class Struggle

Henry George

Fabianism

Percy Alden

Labour Leaders

New Zealand’s Lib-Labs

Stony Ground

5 – THE LEGACY FROM THE OLD SOCIETY

Money and the Samurai

Money and the Peasants

Confucianism

Taoism

Elitism

The Monarchy

6 – JAPANESE ‘SOCIALISM’ TO 1905

‘Socialism’ as an Alternative Form of Capitalism

PART TWO

FROM THE END OF THE RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR (1905) TO THE GREAT RICE RIOTS (1918)

7 – THE FURTHER DEVELOPMENT OF CAPITALISM AND THE FIRST FLEXING OF THE WORKING CLASS’ MUSCLES

The Conditions of the Workers

Strikes and Insurrections

Direct Action in Practice and Theory

The First World War

The Rice Riots

8 – KOTOKU SHUSUI AND THE AMERICAN CONNECTION

The Socialist Party of America

The Socialist Labour Party

The Industrial Workers of the World

The Anarchists

The Shakai Kakumeito (Social-Revolutionary Party)

9 – INSPIRATION FROM RUSSIA

The Nagasaki Russians

Bronislas Pilsudski and Grigorii Gershuni

The Russian Anarchists

Kropotkin

The Russian Revolution

10 – SOCIAL-DEMOCRACY AND SYNDICALISM IN CONTENTION – EUROPEAN BATTLES REFOUGHT IN JAPAN

Arnold Roller’s The Social General Strike

The Emergence of Support for Kotoku’s Direct Actionism

The Conference of the Nippon Shakaito (Socialist Party of Japan)

The Widening Rift

Keir Hardie in Japan

The Social-Democratic Faction

The Syndicalist Faction

11 – CHRISTIANS AND TERRORISTS

Japanese Christian Socialism

Terrorism

12 – JAPANESE ‘SOCIALISM’ TO 1918

The Socialist Movement

Was an Alternative to Capitalism Posed?

Appendix A – ‘ABOLISH MONEY!’ / Kotoku Shusui

Appendix B – ‘THE CHANGE IN MY THOUGHT’ / Kotoku Shusui

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