Taiwan independence Left
{{Short description|Political movement in Taiwan}}
{{Taiwan independence movement|Branch}}
The Taiwan independence Left ({{zh|t_tw=台獨左派}}) are the leftist political and economic ideologies of the participants in the radical Taiwan independence movement, 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 {{ill|Taiwan Obasang Political Equality Party|zh|小民參政歐巴桑聯盟}} 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
Today's main Taiwanese nationalist movements have been bent on anti-communism and pro-Americanism{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6RAJ2Zd3cBwC&dq=%22pro-American%22+%22Democratic+Progressive+Party%22&pg=PA188 |author=Kuan-Hsing Chen |title=Asia as Method: Toward Deimperialization |date=March 26, 2010 |publisher=Duke University Press |pages=188 |isbn=978-0-8223-9169-2 }}{{cite web |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-11-24/dramatic-week-in-taiwan-leaves-pro-us-candidate-as-frontrunner |title=Dramatic Week in Taiwan Leaves Pro-US Candidate as Frontrunner |website=Bloomberg News |date=November 24, 2023 |access-date=June 1, 2024 |archive-date=November 24, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231124201340/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-11-24/dramatic-week-in-taiwan-leaves-pro-us-candidate-as-frontrunner |url-status=live }} to oppose Chinese imperialism, but historically, Taiwanese nationalist movements have adopted national liberation concepts derived from Marxism{{cite book |author=Mei-ling T. Wang |title=The Dust that Never Settles; The Taiwan Independence Campaign and U.S.-China Relations |quote= ... the "Taiwan Revolutionary Party" that openly advocated a Marxist and Leninist approach to independence. |date=1999 |publisher=University Press of America |pages=256}} and Leninism{{cite news |title=Viewing Taiwan From the Left |url=https://jacobinmag.com/2020/01/taiwan-elections-hong-kong-protests-china-dpp-kmt |quote=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. |work=Jacobin magazine |access-date=6 May 2020 |date=10 January 2020 |archive-date=26 December 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201226000501/https://jacobinmag.com/2020/01/taiwan-elections-hong-kong-protests-china-dpp-kmt |url-status=live }} to resist Japanese colonial rule and KMT dictatorship.
= Taiwan under Japanese rule =
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,{{Cite journal |last1=Hsiao |first1=Frank S. T. |last2=Sullivan |first2=Lawrence R. |date=1979 |title=The Chinese Communist Party and the Status of Taiwan, 1928-1943 |journal=Pacific Affairs |volume=52 |issue=3 |pages=446 |doi=10.2307/2757657 |jstor=2757657}} 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.{{cn|date=August 2024}}
= Taiwan under Republic of China rule =
Taiwan independence activists and leftists have been the main victims of "white terror" by the Kuomintang-led ROC government in the past.{{cite news|url=http://www.newtaiwan.com.tw/bulletinview.jsp?bulletinid=74398|title=武裝革命為台獨 鄭評落網被槍決|author=李禎祥|date=2007-12-05|accessdate=2010-05-25|publisher=《新台灣新聞週刊》第611期|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140104220118/http://www.newtaiwan.com.tw/bulletinview.jsp?bulletinid=74398|archivedate=2014-01-04}}
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.鄭任汶. 綠營震驚？楊碧川：早就想出來. 聯合晚報. 2006-07-26: 3.{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2dBdby_Ck24C&dq=DPP+taiwan+%22extreme+nationalist%22&pg=PA199 |author=Xiaokun Song |title=Between Civic and Ethnic: The Transformation of Taiwanese Nationalist Ideologies (1895-2000) |quote= |date=2009 |publisher=VUBPRESS |pages=199|isbn=978-90-5487-575-8 }}{{cite news|url=http://forums.chinatimes.com/special/Taiwan_left/report_a1.htm|title=懼統而避左 其實左≠統|author=林照真|date=2001-03-12|accessdate=2015-06-20|publisher=中國時報|page=|archive-date=2017-10-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171027180440/http://forums.chinatimes.com/special/Taiwan_left/report_a1.htm}}
See also
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- Anarchism in Taiwan
- Chinese imperialism
- Labor movement in Taiwan
- New Tide faction
- Progressivism in Taiwan
- Taiwan Communist Party
- {{ill|Taiwan Independence Association|zh|獨立台灣會}}
- Taiwan Independence Revolutionary Armed Force