1970/10/01 by Chūshichi Tsuzuki · 2 citations
Social Sciences · #Anarchism and Radical Politics #Japanese History and Culture #Militant #Adversary #Direct action #Political science #Face (sociological concept) #Action (physics) #Law #Political economy #Sociology #Computer security #Politics #Social science #Computer science #Physics
paper · doi:10.1111/j.1477-7053.1970.tb00513.x
openalex publication_date 1970/10/01 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/05/21
IT WOULD SEEM CURIOUS TO AN OUTSIDE OBSERVER THAT THE DISSOLUTION of the Nihon-Anakisuto-Renmei (Japanese Anarchist Federation) should be formally announced in January 1969, at a time when militant students were determined to defend their ‘fortress’, the Yasuda auditorium of Tokyo University, which they had occupied for several months, against an attack by the riot police. The anarchists themselves called the dissolution ‘a deployment in the face of the enemy’. Yet they had to admit at the same time that they had reached a deadlock in their attempts within the Federation to formulate new theories of anarchism and to hit upon new forms of organization for the new era of direct action which they believed had begun. Indeed, they remained very weak numerically, and they had only a limited direct influence among the student movements which appeared in their eyes to have ushered in this era.