Sympathizer - Sympathizer

Abbreviation of sympathizer. It appeared in the early 19th century as a term to refer to someone who agreed with a particular political faction. Later, from around the 1920s, when revolutionary vanguard parties were formed in various countries, the term came to refer to outside collaborators who resonated with the party's ideology and policies and were willing to cooperate in concrete actions, but who were still clearly distinguished from party members. It can be said to be the product of the contradiction between the purity of a revolutionary party and the task of organizing a large number of people. Today, the term is used in a form close to its original meaning.

[Yazawa Shujiro]

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シンパサイザーsympathizer（同調者）の略。19世紀初頭に特定の政治的党派に対する同調者をさす語として登場した。その後1920年代ころから各国で革命的前衛政党が結成されると、その政党のイデオロギーや政策に共鳴し、具体的行動にも協力を惜しまないものの、なお党員とは明確に区別される党外協力者をさすようになった。革命政党の純粋性と多数の大衆の組織化という任務との間の矛盾の産物といえる。現在は原義に近い形で用いられる。

［矢澤修次郎］

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