Friday Society (Socialism)

…After returning to Japan, he made a speech entitled “Trends of the World Revolutionary Movement” in which he advocated direct action through general strikes. His position was made clearer in “Changes in My Thought” published in the daily newspaper “Heimin Shimbun” in February 1907, which led to a debate with Tetsuji Tazoe, a member of the parliamentary policy faction at the 2nd Congress of the Japan Socialist Party. After that, he formed the Friday Society with Sakai and Yamakawa Eiji, and also gave speeches at the Asian Peace Association, which was formed by Chinese revolutionaries Zhang Ji and Zhang Binglin in Tokyo under the banner of anti-imperialistism and national independence. After returning home due to illness, he worked on translating Kropotkin's “The Snatch of Bread.” …

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Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

…帰国後の演説会で〈世界革命運動の潮流〉と題してゼネストによる直接行動論を主張し，その立場は07年2月の日刊《平民新聞》に発表した〈余が思想の変化〉においてより鮮明となり，日本社会党第2回大会における議会政策派の田添鉄二との論争に発展した。その後，堺，山川均らと金曜会を結成するほか，在京の中国の革命家張継や章炳麟らが反帝国主義･民族独立を旗印に結成した亜洲和親会で演説をするなどして交流した。病気で帰郷後，クロポトキンの《麵麭（パン）の略取》の翻訳に従事する。…

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