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承前*1

英国では毛沢東主義者が再び注目されている。

Lucy Townsend “How common were Maoist groups in 1970s Britain?” http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-25110548

Aravindan Balakrishnanが率いていたWorkers' Institute of Marxism-Leninism-Mao Zedong Thoughtのメンバーは25人だった。

The group was not unusual. There were about 20 Maoist groups active in the UK in the 1970s, says Michel Hockx*2, director of the SOAS China Institute at SOAS, University of London. All followed the ideology of Chinese communist leader, Mao Zedong, who put industry under state ownership, collectivised farming and ruthlessly suppressed opposition.
"All [the UK groups] considered themselves Maoists, but they fought against each other about who was in possession of the right ideology," he says.
"Some were fairly militant, they would actively promote overthrowing the capitalist systems and class systems. Others practised communal living, equality as a group."
In some of the groups work would be collectively organised, people took meals together, shared possessions and would take part in political planning together.
"Whatever they produced would be divided among each other according to how much work they did, or more ideologically, by how much they needed it," adds Hockx.
It wasn't just Maoists, there was a great deal of other radical activism at the time.

1970年代の英国で活動実体があった毛沢東主義のグループは約20。数の上からいえば、日本の場合、もっと多かっただろうか。
Dennis Tourish氏*3は”Each spilt had its own pope, its divine leader, but they were all trying to colonise the same belief systems”と言っている。そういえば、日本の毛沢東主義集団にも〈ミニ毛沢東〉というべき謎の人物が屡々存在したのだった*4。

Nick Cohen*5 “Cultists & communists – too close to us for comfort” http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/nick-cohen/2013/11/cultists-communists-too-close-to-us-for-comfort/

所謂「カルト」（内閉的集団）*6はメンバーの忠誠心を確保しているのか。

毛沢東主義者の簇生は、政治思想史から言えば、所謂中蘇対立の産物であるといえるだろう。1960年代以降、世界の何処の国の共産党でも蘇聯派と中国派の分裂を経験した。ところで、廣松渉先生が五木寛之との対談本で、中蘇対立というのは実は日本が世界に先駆けていたと語っていて、最初読んだときには、こんなところでお国自慢しなくてもいいじゃん、どうせスターリン主義者の世界なんだし、と思ったのだが、これは日本共産党における国際派と所感派の抗争のことか。