自20世纪20年代起,日本社会主义者一直致力于建立统一的无产阶级政党。在1940年日本政府强制解散所有政党前,日本共产主义者与社会民主主义者围绕无产阶级政党的统一问题展开激烈斗争。二战后,盟军占领日本,推行民主改革,为日本社会主义运动的发展创造了重要的历史机遇。在此背景下,日本社会主义者纷纷行动,着手重建战前政党。在此过程中,他们再度面临无产阶级政党的统一与分裂问题。1945年8~9月,社会民主主义者与共产党人曾有过联合建立统一政党的机会。但受历史进程、民主改革、共产党人与社会民主主义者的意识形态差异、战后社会民主主义各派团结建党、共产党人的强烈信念与乐观预期等因素的综合影响,共产党人与社会民主主义者最终决定分立建党。战后建立统一社会主义政党的目标最终落空,日本社会主义运动分裂为社会党、共产党两大系统。这对战后日本的社会主义运动产生了深刻的影响。
Since the 1920s,Japanese socialists have pursued the establishment of a unified proletarian political party. However,Communists and Social Democrats fought fiercely around the unity of proletarian political parties until they were completely dissolved in 1940. After World War II,the Allied forces occupied Japan and carried out democratic reform,which created an important historical opportunity for the development of Japan’s socialist movement. In this context,Japanese socialists took action one after another to rebuild the pre war political parties. Therefore,they once again face the problem of the unity and division of the proletarian political party. In the early post-war period from August to September 1945,Social Democrats and Communists had the opportunity to jointly establish a unified political party. However,in that process,influenced by the historical development process in the early stage of the occupation,the historical contradiction between the Japanese Communist Party and the Social Democrats,the unity of the three left,middle and right factions of social Nationalism after the war,and the strong political belief of the Communists,the Communists and Social Democrats finally decided to separate and build a new party. Therefore,the Japanese Socialist Movement was divided into two systems:the Socialist Party and the Communist Party,which has had profound impact on Japan’s Socialist movement in the postwar era.