Hitoshi Yamakawa

Hitoshi Yamakawa was a Japanese socialist intellectual, activist, and theorist. He was a central figure in the early Japanese socialist movement and a co-founder of the first Japanese Communist Party in 1922. After breaking with the party a year later, he became the leader of the Rōnō-ha, a dissident group of Marxist thinkers who challenged the Comintern's thesis that Japan required a two-stage revolution.