Deradicalization of the Japanese Communist Party Under Kenji Miyamoto

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ID6411023
AuthorsHong N Kim (corresponding author)
Year1976
Volume28
Issue2
Pages273-299
Publication date1976-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueWorld Politics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0043-8871 • E-ISSN: 1086-3338
PublisherProject MUSE (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2307/2009893
OpenAlexW2143447955
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited17

The phenomenal growth of the Japanese Communist Party's electoral strength during a period of unprecedented economic growth and prosperity (1961–1974) clearly deviates from Benjamin's and Kautsky's “curvilinear theory” of the economic development and strength of Communist parties. Nor does it conform to Lipset's hypothesis that there exists an inverse correlation between the economic growth and the strength of Communist parties. It is my basic contention that the recent growth in the JCP's organizational strength and electoral successes should be ascribed to the overall deradicalization of the party which has taken place since 1961. The findings of this study as a whole substantiate theories en deradicalization of the Marxist movement advanced earlier by Robert Michels and more recently by Robert C. Tucker, who hypothesized that there exists an inverse correlation between the deradicalization of a revolutionary party and its “worldly success.” His findings also confirm Triska's and Finley's hypothesis that deradicalized Communist parties in the developed countries would become not significantly different from other non-Communist parties either in structure or functions

Communism · Communist state · Economics · Marxist philosophy · Neoclassical economics · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Prosperity · Sociology · Asian Industrial and Economic Development · Japanese History and Culture · Labor Movements and Unions · Law

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