日本植民統治의 經濟的遺産에 關한 硏究

• 영문명: A Study on the Economic Consequences of Japanese Colonial Control in Korea
• 발행기관: 서울대학교 경제연구소
• 저자명: Byong-Jick Ahn(安秉直)
• 간행물 정보: 『경제논집』경제논집 4권 4호, 141~175쪽, 전체 34쪽
• 주제분류: 경제경영 > 경제학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 1965.12.31

영문 초록

As a younger student of colonial history, I am deeply interested in the modern colonial history of Korea whose destiny depended upon the history of capitalism in Japan. Among the various types of colonies, the most interesting type of colony to the students of underdeveloped countries may be the colony that was founded upon feudal society by the western or eastern imperialism. The typical colonies of this are Korea, India, China, Indonesia, Indo-China, though China was half-colonial nation. This type of colonies went through the three stages of development, as the western capitalism developed from commercial capitalism and industrial capitalism to imperialism. Of the three stages of the colonial development, the third stage of them is the subject of our study, not noly because it, as the nearest past of the colonial nations, is the causes of their poverty and misery, but because the study of it will illuminate the way of winning them. Socialists and critical "bourgeois" economists of colonization alike agree on the following conclusion of the studies of colonization. (1) Where the western or eastern capitalists were faced by established society with rich and ancient cultures, still precapitalist or in the embryonic state of capitalist development, they rapidly determined to extract the largest possible gains from the host countries, and to take their loot home. Thus they engaged in outright pounder or in plunder thinly veiled as trade, seizing and moving tremendous wealth from the places of their penetrations. (2) For the unilateral transfers of wealth from the colonial countries to the imperial capitalists provide the prerequisites of capitalism in the precapitalist or in the embryonic state of capitalist development. By breaking up the age-old patterns of the agricultural economy, and by forcing shifts to the production of exportable crops, Western capitalism destroyed the self-sufficiency of the rural society that formed the basis of precapitalist order in all countries of its penetration, and rapidly widened and deepened the scope of commodity circulation. By outright-in many countries, massive-seizure of peasant-occupied land for plantation purposes and other uses by foreign enterprise and by exposing their rural handicrafts to the widening competition of its industrial exports, it created a vast pool of pauperized labor. Enlarging thus the area of capitalist activities, it advanced the evolution of legal and property relation attuned to the needs of a market economy and established administrative institutions required for their enforcement. Only in order to expand and tighten the economic and political grip on the areas of its domination, it forced the diversion of some of their economic surplus to the improvement of their systems of communication, to the building of railroads, harbors, and highways, providing thereby as a by-product the facilities needed for profitable investment of capital. (3) Accelerating with irresistable energy the maturing of some of the basic prerequisites for the development of a capitalist system, the intrusion of Western capitalism in the now underdeveloped countries blocked with equal force the ripening of other. The removal of a large share of the effected countries' previously accumulated and currently generated surplus could not but cause a serious setback to their primary accumulation of capital. Their being exposed to ruinous competition from abroad could not but smother their fledgling industry although the expansion of commodity circulation, the pauperization of large numbers of peasants and artisans, the contact with western technology, provided a powerful impetus to the development of capitalism, this development was forcibly shunted off its normal course, distorted and crippled to suit the purposes of Western imperialism. Based on the above three general conclusions of the studies of colonial history, we can propose the following three questions. What importance had

목차

Ⅰ. 植民地와 植民母國

Ⅱ. 日本金融獨占資本의 商品 및 資本投下市場으로서의 朝鮮

Ⅲ. 日本金融獨占資本의 食糧 및 原料供給地로서의 朝鮮

Ⅳ. 依存經濟體制