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Keiichi Matsushita's Mass Society Theory: A Case of Leftist Democratic Theory in Post-War Japan
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Keiichi Matsushita’s Mass Society Theory:
A Case of Leftist Democratic Theory in Post-War Japan
Ryusaku
Y
AMADA, Ph.D.
Associate Professor in Politics
Nihon University College of International Relations
2-31-145 Bunkyo-cho, Mishima-shi,
Shizuoka 411-8555, Japan
E-mail: ## email not listed ##
Prepared for delivery at the 2006 Annual Meeting of
the American Political Science Association,
Philadelphia, August 31
st
- September 3
rd
, 2006
Copyright by the American Political Science Association
Draft only: do not cite without the author’s permission
Abstract
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There are several points that represent the significance of
the study of Keiichi Matsushita’s theory of mass society today: (1) Matsushita’s mass society theory in the 1950s was not a mere introduction of western mass society arguments but, under the strong influence of Marxian ideas (though he himself was not Marxist), he elaborated his own distinctive mass society theory; (2) Matsushita’s understanding of Marx was different from that of Stalinism, and he situated Marxism and socialism in modern European political theory since John Locke, the theory that he called “civic political theory”; and (3) Matsushita’s leftist idea of mass society and democracy in the 1950s had resemblance to European leftist radical democracy over the conception of socialism and civil society.
Key Words
: mass society, mass democracy, radical democracy, civil society
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Keiichi Matsushita’s Mass Society Theory:
A Case of Leftist Democratic Theory in Post-War Japan
Ryusaku
Y
AMADA, Ph.D.
Associate Professor in Politics
Nihon University College of International Relations
2-31-145 Bunkyo-cho, Mishima-shi,
Shizuoka 411-8555, Japan
E-mail: ## email not listed ##
Prepared for delivery at the 2006 Annual Meeting of
the American Political Science Association,
Philadelphia, August 31
st
- September 3
rd
, 2006
Copyright by the American Political Science Association
Draft only: do not cite without the author’s permission
Abstract
:
There are several points that represent the significance of
the study of Keiichi Matsushita’s theory of mass society today: (1)
Matsushita’s mass society theory in the 1950s was not a mere
introduction of western mass society arguments but, under the strong
influence of Marxian ideas (though he himself was not Marxist), he
elaborated his own distinctive mass society theory; (2) Matsushita’s
understanding of Marx was different from that of Stalinism, and he
situated Marxism and socialism in modern European political theory
since John Locke, the theory that he called “civic political theory”;
and (3) Matsushita’s leftist idea of mass society and democracy in the
1950s had resemblance to European leftist radical democracy over
the conception of socialism and civil society.
Key Words
: mass society, mass democracy, radical democracy, civil society
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