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| Born | (1886-01-04)January 4, 1886 |
| Died | December 23, 1928(1928-12-23) (aged 42) |
| Other names | Motoyuki Takahata |
| Known for | First Japanese translation ofDas Kapital |
| Movement | Japanese Marxism |
Motoyuki Takabatake (Japanese:高畠素之,Hepburn:Takabatake Motoyuki; 1886 – 1928) was a Japanesejournalist andpolitical activist who completed the first full Japanese translation ofKarl Marx'sDas Kapital.
In his youth he became a member of the smallJapanese anarchist movement. During theRussian Revolution however, he began to lean in support ofstate socialism. Where prominentMarxists saw the state inSoviet Russia as a temporary and necessary evil needed to constructcommunist society, Takabatake welcomed the revolution precisely because it would lead to a strong centralized state. This led to tensions between him and other Japanese Marxists, with Takabatake becoming one of the first theoreticians ofsocialist nationalism in Japan. He completed the first Japanese translation ofDas Kapital in 1924, though by 1926 he had left Marxism entirely, establishing the fascistKenkokukai organization, and had prepared to establish aNational Socialist Party before his abrupt death in 1928.[1][2]
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