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The Taiwan independence Left (台獨左派) are the leftist political and economic ideologies of the participants in the radical Taiwan independence movement,[1] which favored left-wing nationalism, anti-imperialism, socialism (mainly social democracy or Trotskyism) and progressivism.
The Taiwan Statebuilding Party, the New Power Party, the Social Democratic Party, the Green Party Taiwan, and the Taiwan Obasang Political Equality Party and others are left-wing parties that support Taiwan independence. The International Socialist Forward is a revolutionary socialist (Trotskyist) political organization that supports Taiwanese independence. Some of the Taiwan Independence Left collaborate with the main moderate Taiwanese nationalist Democratic Progressive Party and others distance themselves.
History
[edit]Today's main Taiwanese nationalist movements have been bent on anti-communism and pro-Americanism[2][3][4] to oppose Chinese imperialism, but historically, Taiwanese nationalist movements have adopted national liberation concepts derived from Marxism[5] and Leninism[4][5] to resist Japanese colonial rule and KMT dictatorship.
Taiwan under Japanese rule
[edit]There were left-leaning political parties for Taiwan independence, such as the Taiwanese Communist Party during the period of Taiwan under Japanese rule. The Taiwan independence movement under Japan was supported by Mao Zedong in the 1930s as a means of freeing Taiwan from Japanese rule,[6] but he changed this position only after the Nationalists started claiming Taiwan with the Cairo Declaration. Su Beng and Lee Teng-hui were members of the Chinese Communist Party in the late 1940s, and there was also a short-lived radical leftist party called the Taiwan Revolutionary Party in the 1980s.
Taiwan under Republic of China rule
[edit]Taiwan independence activists and leftists have been the main victims of "white terror" by the Kuomintang-led ROC government in the past.[7]
The Democratic Progressive Party was left-wing in its early days, but it turned to a moderate and practical Taiwanese nationalist party; The DPP does not support strict left-wing views on labor issues, and supports Huadu rather than radical Taiwanese independence.[1][8][9]
See also
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- Anarchism in Taiwan
- Chinese imperialism
- Labor movement in Taiwan
- New Tide faction
- Progressivism in Taiwan
- Taiwan Communist Party
- Taiwan Independence Association
References
[edit]- ^ a b 鄭任汶. 綠營震驚？楊碧川：早就想出來. 聯合晚報. 2006-07-26: 3.
- ^ Kuan-Hsing Chen (March 26, 2010). Asia as Method: Toward Deimperialization. Duke University Press. p. 188. ISBN 978-0-8223-9169-2.
- ^ "Dramatic Week in Taiwan Leaves Pro-US Candidate as Frontrunner". Bloomberg News. November 24, 2023. Retrieved June 1, 2024.
- ^ a b "Viewing Taiwan From the Left". Jacobin magazine. 10 January 2020. Archived from the original on 26 December 2020. Retrieved 6 May 2020.
Broadly speaking, the political left has been pro-independence; their notion of independence was historically shaped, particularly in the postwar period, by the wave of anticolonial uprisings across the world, as well as elements of Leninist conceptions of self-determination. ... ... and the DPP and other more pro-independence Taiwanese political parties bank on US imperialism as a way to ward off China.
- ^ a b Mei-ling T. Wang (1999). The Dust that Never Settles; The Taiwan Independence Campaign and U.S.-China Relations. University Press of America. p. 256.
... the "Taiwan Revolutionary Party" that openly advocated a Marxist and Leninist approach to independence.
- ^ Hsiao, Frank S. T.; Sullivan, Lawrence R. (1979). "The Chinese Communist Party and the Status of Taiwan, 1928-1943". Pacific Affairs. 52 (3): 446. doi:10.2307/2757657. JSTOR 2757657.
- ^ 李禎祥 (2007-12-05). "武裝革命為台獨 鄭評落網被槍決". 《新台灣新聞週刊》第611期. Archived from the original on 2014-01-04. Retrieved 2010-05-25.
- ^ Xiaokun Song (2009). Between Civic and Ethnic: The Transformation of Taiwanese Nationalist Ideologies (1895-2000). VUBPRESS. p. 199. ISBN 978-90-5487-575-8.
- ^ 林照真 (2001-03-12). "懼統而避左 其實左≠統". 中國時報. Archived from the original on 2017-10-27. Retrieved 2015-06-20.
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