On Kita Ikki, With a Focus on An Outline of a Bill on the Reorganization of Japan by Yukio Mishima
"Within the process of reality ceaselessly betraying those idealists of revolution, human betrayal is no more than one form of the betrayals of reality."
On Kita Ikki, With a Focus on An Outline of a Bill on the Reorganization of Japan1
Yukio Mishima
Kita Ikki’s On the National Polity and Pure Socialism2 was written when he was 23 and immediately banned. Despite its confused arguments, it is a work of spectacular genius. In his vehemence, in the disorder and penetration within the thought process of youth, the radicality of the unfolding of the logic, in the exquisiteness of the intuition supporting these, as far as I know he is comparable to the genius of Otto Weininger.