Free speech and research without taboos

“Eisenstein” by Léon Moussinac (1971, Sanichi Shobo)

In this book, you can read and compare comments from Eisenstein's staff and film critics. What's more interesting is that the directions of each point are completely different (and that's not a bad thing).

In this book, the author comments on Eisenstein as follows, quoting Marx.
''The image of a truly rich human being (who requires the inner necessity of self-actualization) that Marx advocated exists in real society''.

Japanese university researchers also quote Eisenstein, but they only mention the montage. In other words, ignore Marx and communism.
Even though everything is related.
A characteristic of Japan is that it is silent about politics.
However, in Japan, communists have been persecuted by the government and police since before the war, and this trend continues even today.
Negative campaigns about communism have been going on for over 100 years, so I'm sure most people are scared.
Therefore, in order to openly talk about Marx and communism in public, it is necessary to have a scientific understanding of the long history.

While working at a university, Harada had the opportunity to speak with two university professors who were researching Norman McLaren.
The two knew that Norman McLaren was a member of the Communist Party, but when Harada pointed it out, they fell silent.

Similarly, Japanese researchers avoid the fact that Picasso, Yoshifumi Kondo, and others were members of the Communist Party.

If you apply the ''materialism'' and ''dialectics'' that We wrote about in this blog before to your daily life, there should be no taboos.