One-stage revolution theory

...On the other hand, non-Communist Marxists (the Labor-Farmer faction) defined the Imperial state as a bourgeois state with feudal relics, on the grounds that since the Meiji Restoration, the state had fostered capitalism, abolished feudal ownership by abolishing feudal domains and establishing prefectures, and later developed into a monopoly capitalist state, and that the high rents under landlord-owned land were the result of competition among tenant farmers for arable land. This debate was carried out as a stepping stone to prove the correctness of each revolutionary strategy (the Lecture School faction held the two-stage revolution theory, which considered the immediate revolution to be a bourgeois democratic revolution that would rapidly transform into a socialist revolution, while the Labor-Farmer faction held the one-stage revolution theory, which called for the immediate socialist revolution to be carried out). As a result, partisan disputes intervened, and neither side would give in. ...

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…これに対し，非共産党系マルクス主義者(労農派)は，明治維新以来国家が資本主義を育成し，廃藩置県，地租改正により封建的領有制を廃止，後には独占資本主義国にまで発展したこと，地主的土地所有下の高率小作料は小作農民の耕地獲得競争によってもたらされたものであることなどから，天皇制国家を封建的遺制をもったブルジョア国家と規定した。この論争はそれぞれの革命戦略の正しさを論証する布石として行われた(講座派は当面の革命は社会主義革命に急速に転化するブルジョア民主主義革命とする二段階革命説を，労農派は直ちに社会主義革命を遂行するという一段階革命説をとっていた)。そのため党派的争いが介入し，両者とも譲らなかった。…

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