Japans Neue Linke : die selbsternannte Avantgarde

• Main Author: Derichs, Claudia
• Format: Others
• Language: German
• Published: Universität Potsdam 1994
• Subjects: Political science
• Online Access: http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-11029; http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/volltexte/2006/1102/

Although without providing a systematical comparison, it has become clear that the sects or party-factions of Japan’s New Left movement are by no means merely copies of their counterparts in the West. On the other hand their conduct may not be judged as to be a unique Japanese phenomenon. What they embody is, on the whole, a complex symbiosis of universal and particularly Japanese features, which can be observed in the fields of social behavior, organizational structure, and group dynamics. The particularity of the New Left factions is mostly revealed through the higher intensity of specific features rather than through pecularities found only in Japan.