Hitoshi Yamakawa, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Japanese socialist intellectual
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Place of Birth: Kurashiki, Okayama Prefecture, Japan
About Hitoshi Yamakawa
- Hitoshi Yamakawa (?? ?, Yamakawa Hitoshi) (December 20, 1880 – March 23, 1958) was a Japanese socialist intellectual.
- He played a leading role in founding the Japanese Communist Party in 1922.
- He was also one of the founders of Rono-ha (workers farmers faction), a group of Marxist thinkers opposed to the Comintern.
- His most famous work was the essay "A change of course for the proletarian movement"(???????????) where he advocated direct political action and better coordination with the labour movement while criticising the anarchist movement for failing to achieve any lasting results.
- He is remembered in Japan today for being instrumental in introducing Marxism and socialism to Japanese thinkers.
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