The Change in My Thinking

The classic essay by Kotoku Shusui that launched the anarchist movement in Japan. In The Change in My Thinking, Kotoku, one of Japan's foremost socialists in the late Meiji period, laid out the reasons for his move toward anarchism, his insistence that "direct action" is the only way to truly realize a social revolution, and his plea for his socialist comrades to re-consider their strategy of prioritizing parliamentary power. This translation featues an introduction by Michael H. Brown, extensive annotations, and Kotoku's own preface that accompanied the original essay.