또 하나의 戰線 －신생활사그룹의 민족일치론 비판을 중심으로－

Abstract

New Life, which was allowed to be published after the newspaper law’s passage in November 1922, was issued as New Life Weekly from the issue no.10. Then, the New Life group identified itself as the ‘vanguard of emerging class,’ clarifying the ideological orientation of New Life towards socialism. The 10th issue of New Life featured ‘Nationality and Class,’ and ‘the other front’ with bourgeois nationalist groups was formed through the critique of the theory of national unity of Dongmyung. On the other hand, the journalists, Yoo Jin Hee and Lee Hyeok Ro, joined the group, which showed the expansion of New Life group. The theory of national unity of Dongmyung holds that the immediate problem in colonial Joseon is to identify the national ideology since they can achieve their final purpose if all Joseon people unite to establish their ideology and put it in practice. ‘National unity’ is based on ‘national awareness’ and ‘3․1 movement’ should be emphasized in this sense. ‘National awareness’ and ‘national unity’ was achieved through 3․1 movement, through which the ‘national identity’ was ‘discovered.’ Therefore, the ‘discovery’ in the theory of Joseon national ideology refers to the ‘nation itself’ and Dongmyung is regarded as ‘one who wants to complete the nation discovered.’ Here, class interests within the nation are not considered and the ‘nation’ is more important than anything else. This shows that the bourgeois nationalist groups try to bring the nation to the fore to achieve their own interests. Unity should be based on the same interests. Within a nation, there are an exploiting class and an exploited class, bourgeoisie and proletariat, which have different class interests based on ‘economic exploitation.’ This is regardless of its political situation of imperialism or colonialism, and thus there are bourgeoisie and proletariat in colonial Joseon. Dongmyung just represents the interests of the bourgeoisie by claiming ‘national unity.’ In this sense, the New Life group ciriticized the theory of national unity of Dongmyung. On the other hand, the group criticized the ‘national completion’ of Dongmyung as just the ‘type magic’ of imperialism․aggressiveness․bourgeoisie, making the impossible of reality possible in print.