中核VS革マル(上)

by 立花 隆

血で血を洗う殺戮戦争を続ける学生や労働者たち。その覆面の下には、どんな素顔が隠されていたのか。高い理想と正義感から生まれたはずの“革命”運動が、両党派間の内ゲバ殺人に転化していった悲惨な歴史の逆説。いま困難な時代の転換期にあって、先行世代の軌跡を見詰めなおす綿密なドキュメント。

Paperback Bunko

First published January 10, 1983

Reviews

[Chelsea Szendi · Rating 4 out of 5]

The main weakness of this book is that it does not integrate the extensive quotations (for which I longed for better citation!) and the author's analysis as thoroughly as I would like. That said, as a journalistic account of the "blood feud" between the Chûkaku and Kakumaru sects of the Japanese New Left, it is a very smooth and informative read. Again, the analysis often comes across as a bit superficial (aside from the introduction, in which the author lays out some incisive hypotheses about some motivations for the fierce competition within the Japanese New Left, which resonates in some ways with resource mobilization theory). But the wealth of texture and detail! I look forward to looking up Tachibana's series of articles with which he launched this project in "Gendai."

Starting in on Volume 2!