Teruo Takei

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Teruo Takei (武井 昭夫, Takei Teruo; January 29 1927 – September 2, 2010) was a Japanese literary critic. While a student at the University of Tokyo, he played a central role in the founding of the nationwide student federation Zengakuren, and served as its first chairman. As a literary critic, he was at the forefront of a movement to demand that writers confront their own culpability in wartime collaboration. Teruo Takei was born in Yokohama on January 29, 1927. In 1946, he joined the Japanese Communist Party (JCP), which had just become legal under the U.S.-led occupation of Japan. While a student in western history at the University of Tokyo in 1948, he played a key role in the formation of the nationwide student federation Zengakuren, and served as its first chairman. Takei dropped out of university before graduating, in order to focus on activism. In 1950, The JCP issued a criticism of Takei's leadership of Zengakuren, asserting that the emphasis on "flashy" protests was undermining popular support for the party. Takei responded by propounding his "theory of the student movement as a social stratum" (sō to shite no gakusei undō), in which he argued that university students could become the main political subject of the class struggle, as a separate social stratum independent from party leadership and the working classes. In 1950, Takei also opposed the militant line the JCP took in response to a directive from Joseph Stalin.