抄録
Saburo Eda, a former leading member of the Japan Socialist Party, has been reassessed in these past few years. This paper will discuss whether or not such a reassessment is appropriate. The discussion will be particularly focused on whether Eda advocates West European social democracy. When Saburo Eda is compared with Suehiro Nishio, who was also a leading member of the Japan Socialist Party and later founded the Democratic Socialist Party, in terms of views on socialism and politics, it is revealed that Eda is not a pioneer as a social democrat in Japan. Table of contents 1. Modern reassessment of Eda 2. Relationship between party and ideology 3. Relationship between socialism, social democracy, West European social democracy, and democratic socialism 4. Saburo Eda's views on socialism 5. Suehiro Nishio's views on socialism and politics
