Tamizo Kushida

Marxist economist. Born in Fukushima Prefecture on November 16, 1885. After graduating from Tokyo School of Foreign Languages, he studied economics under Kawakami Hajime at Kyoto Imperial University, and continued his research at the graduate school of Tokyo Imperial University under Takano Iwasaburo. After working as an editorial writer for the Osaka Asahi Shimbun and a professor at Doshisha University, he became a lecturer at the newly established Faculty of Economics of Tokyo Imperial University in 1919 (Taisho 8), but resigned the following year when the Morito Incident occurred and joined the Ohara Institute of Social Research, founded by his mentor Takano (1919), and soon after studied in Germany, returning to Japan in 1922. From then until his sudden death at the institute, he devoted himself to the study of Marxist economics, and raised the standard of Marxist economics research in Japan through his criticism of his mentor Kawakami's understanding of the materialist view of history and his counter-criticism of the criticism of Marx's value theory by Takada Yasuma, Koizumi Shinzo and others. In the 1930s, he continued to study Marx's theory of rent, and later argued that Japanese tenant rents were pre-capitalist rents, which came into conflict with the views of the Lecture School. He died on November 5, 1934. Most of his writings are included in the 5-volume Collected Works of Kushida Tamizo (1935, republished in 1947 by Kaizosha), which was edited after his death by Takano Iwasaburo, Ouchi Hyoe, and others.

[Harunari Yamazaki]

"Letters from Hajime Kawakami to Tamizo Kushida" (1974, Hosei University Press)

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マルクス経済学者。明治18年11月16日福島県生まれ。東京外国語学校卒業後、京都帝国大学で河上肇(はじめ)に経済学を学び、さらに東京帝国大学大学院で研究を続け高野岩三郎に師事した。『大阪朝日新聞』論説記者、同志社大学教授を経て、1919年（大正8）新設の東京帝国大学経済学部の講師となったが、翌20年「森戸事件」に際会して辞職、恩師高野が創立（1919）した大原社会問題研究所に入り、まもなくドイツに留学、22年帰国。以後急逝するまで同研究所にあってマルクス経済学の研究に没頭し、恩師河上の唯物史観理解の批判や、高田保馬(やすま)、小泉信三などのマルクス価値論批判への反批判を通じて、日本のマルクス経済学研究の水準を向上させた。30年代に入ってからはマルクスの地代論の研究を進め、ついで日本の小作料は前資本主義地代であると論じて講座派の見解と対立した。昭和9年11月5日没。著作は、彼の没後、高野岩三郎、大内兵衛(おおうちひょうえ)らによって編集された『櫛田民蔵全集』全5巻（1935、再刊1947・改造社）にほとんど収録されている。

［山崎春成］

『河上肇著『河上肇より櫛田民蔵への手紙』（1974・法政大学出版局）』

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