조선중앙사회단체협의회 논쟁과 합법운동론

Abstract

Examined in this article are claims and arguments made over the Joseon Central Council for Social Organizations issue and the controversy that ensued over its nature. The objective of such examination is to compare the contents of the argument that surfaced in colonized Joseon for a Unified Socialist Popular Political Party, with how Socialist movements actually progressed in another country, which was in this case Japan.BR From 1924 through 1927, after it was confirmed that a General Election would be held in Japan, suggestions and propositions for a course correction in Socialist movements and political struggles for that aim began to spread both in Korea and Japan. In the wake of such arguments flying around, some of the Seoul-based Korean Socialists and some independent Socialists as well attempted to form the Joseon Central Council for Social Organizations (JCCSO).BR Socialists who supported not only the formation of the council but also its permanent operations also argued that a supreme body (other than JCCSO) that could regulate all popular social bodies in Joseon should be established to represent the Proletariat Class. They envisioned it as either a council of a Unified Coalition of the Proletariat Class, or a lawful, Unified Proletariat Class Party, which could be described as a Unified Socialist Popular Political Party. The aforementioned Joseon Central Council for Social Organizations was considered as a medium that could facilitate the fruition of that unified, lawful Proletariat Class Party.BR They did not deny the necessity of the Communist Party, but they still viewed it as a party only representing certain parts –albeit important parts- of the entire Proletariat Class. Unlike them, the Joseon Communist Party as well as other activists who were strongly against the idea of establishing a permanent body (apart from the Communist Party) argued that the Communist Party was in full representation of the entire Proletariat Class, and it stands for the independence of the Labor Class and the Proletariat Hegemony.BR The supporters of the idea of JCCSO’s permanent establishment show us that there were indeed Socialists in Joseon with opinions different from those who were in favor of the ways of COMINTERN and the Communist Party, which strongly believed that only a Vanguard Party could and should lead the Revolutionary movement.