Kuroda Kan'ichi
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Kuroda Kan'ichi 黒田寛一 (10/20/1927-06/26/2006) was the son of a doctor. He began studying Marxist philosophy when he was twenty, in 1947, following the defeat of Japanese imperialism the defeat of Japanese imperialism and the subsequent U.S. occupation of Japan. At this time the workers movement in Japan was quite strong, but very influenced by pro-soviet Stalinist politics. Kuroda started closely studying works by prominent Japanese philosophers, such as Katsumi Umemoto, Akihide Kakehashi and Kozo Uno.
In 1956, following the 1956 Hungarian Revolution, Kuroda joined Toichi Kurihara formed the first Trotskyist organization in Japanese history. Kuroda criticised the mechanical "materialism" that was prevalent in the orthodox Marxism, and rather developed a philosophical theory of "Materialist Subjectivity".
From 1959, Kuroda became the Chairman of the Japan Revolutionary Communist League. He has written over fifty books published both in Japan and other countries on such subjects as Marxist philosophy, the analysis of Soviet society, Japanese cultural history, theory and praxis of organization building, and contemporary politics.
[edit] Works
- Hegel and Marx, May, 1952
- Studies on Marxism in Postwar Japan, 2002
- Dialectics of Society, 2003,
George W. Bush quoted from Kuroda in his remarks: "They imagined … that September the 11th would be the 'beginning of the end of America'" (Bush's announcement of the "end of major combat operations in Iraq" made from the USS Abraham Lincoln on May 1, 2003).
