미 군정기의 농민 조직과 농민 운동 -민중의 사회 세력화와 그 좌절 = Peasant Organizations and Peasant Movements under the American Military Government: Abortive Attempts of the Populace to Become Effective Social Forceas

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This paper purports to analyze how the peasantry tried to organize themselves and initiated violent protests against the rulers in the American Military government period that lasted until 1948 from Korea``s liberation in 1945. Unlike current studies on the subject that emphasize either the voluntary nature of peasant organizations and protests or the ,external intervention and control on them, I try to show an interactive process between the two. Main focus of the analysis, therefore, is how peasant organizations interacted with outside helpers, like political left wing groups, in their attempts to make social movements in the fohn of collective action. The thesis I elaborate in ti1is paper is that the combination of the two different motives, one by peasants and the other by political left wing groups, was very much incomplete and the disjuncture coming from this incomplete synthesis Significantly limited the organizational capacity of peasant protests of the time. Political left wing groups, especially the Communist Party, were very radical in their orientation of social Movements, while ordinary peasants revealed only limited radicalism even in their fierce protests of the October Uprising. Divergence of the peasantry between their radical perception and limited radical activities explains why the movements did not result in the radical transformation of the agrarian society under the American Military Government.