{"product_id":"the-japanese-ideology-a-marxist-critique-of-liberalism-and-fascism-paperback","title":"The Japanese Ideology: A Marxist Critique of Liberalism and Fascism - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJun Tosaka\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eRobert Stolz\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA major Marxist thinker and critic in 1930s Japan, Tosaka Jun was among the world's most incisive--yet underrecognized--theorists of capitalism, fascism, and ideology during the years before World War II. \u003ci\u003eThe Japanese Ideology\u003c\/i\u003e is his masterpiece, first published in 1935, as Japan and the world plummeted into an age of reaction. Tosaka offers a ruthless philosophical critique of contemporary ideology that exposes liberalism's deep complicity with fascism. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Japanese Ideology\u003c\/i\u003e provides a materialist analysis of the reactionary ideology then overtaking Japan, with profound significance for anywhere fascism has taken root. Modeled after Marx and Engels's \u003ci\u003eThe German Ideology\u003c\/i\u003e, it critiques idealism as the common ground for liberalism and fascism, against which only historical materialism can suffice. Tosaka demonstrates how liberal and fascist ideas at once justified and concealed Japan's colonization of East Asia, and he investigates the many traces of fascism in Japanese thought and society. \u003ci\u003eThe Japanese Ideology\u003c\/i\u003e makes an important intervention in Marxist theory by criticizing reliance on the East\/West binary and the notion of the \"Asiatic mode of production.\" Robert Stolz's translation introduces Anglophone readers to a classic of twentieth-century Marxist thought by an unsung peer of Gramsci and Benjamin with striking relevance today.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTosaka Jun (1900-45) was a Marxist philosopher of science and cultural critic. He was cofounder and editor of the journal \u003ci\u003eMaterialism Studies\u003c\/i\u003e. Arrested several times in the 1930s, he died in prison on August 9, 1945. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRobert Stolz is associate professor of history at the University of Virginia. He is coeditor of \u003ci\u003eTosaka Jun: A Critical Reader\u003c\/i\u003e (2014) and author of \u003ci\u003eBad Water: Nature, Pollution, and Politics in Japan, 1870-1950\u003c\/i\u003e (2014).\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 392\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.87 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 17, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44287710658662,"sku":"9780231216531","price":72.52,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/kePISHTkzG9780231216531.webp?v=1766667931","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/the-japanese-ideology-a-marxist-critique-of-liberalism-and-fascism-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}