Re: [Marxism] Re: Is the struggle to unify China an expression of"Great Han chauvinism" today?

["Carlos A. Rivera" <cerejota@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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From: "rrubinelli" <rrubinelli@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

> Yes, I think you have to rule out simple Taiwanese independence as
> something that cannot occur.

That cannot occur from an anti-imperialist perspective, if such nit-picking
is allowed. That imperialism can make it happen, is another matter
altogether,

The single fact that there is no mass expression of an *anti-imperialist*
independence movement in Taiwan should suffice to clarify the issue.

The "independence movement" in Taiwan, in this sense, responds to the same
political outlook, and class content as the "independence movement" in
Alaska. In Alaska's case, it is led by reactionary Republicans and
"libertarians" who want to keep oil revenue for themselves, and escape
federal regulatory limits on oil exploration and enviromental controls. It
is a completely and utterly reactionary movement in form and content.

While the Inuit and Aleuts certainly have a right for self-determination,
the "independence movement" in Alaska is not a movement for the freedom of
the Inuit and Aleuts, but a movement of colonial settlers to exploit more
freely the land they robbed from the Native-Americans.

Likewise, the "independence movement" in Taiwan is one utterly devoid of any
mass anti-imperialist context, but rather a liberal hook to a reactionary
program. The Taiwanese that were occupied by the RoC/KMT settlers, certainly
have a right to seek self-determination, but it is not their national
interest that is getting an expression in the current government's push for
independence. It is actually the disaffected ex-KMT second-generation
billonaires who support this independence movement.

This is not first time that imperialism uses the "right for national
self-determination" to co-opt liberals into supporting their imperialist
aims. The case of Tibet and the liberal support for a fascist loving, feudal
oscurantist Dalai Lama is ample as example, but others such as the Ukrainian
death squads during the Soviet Union period, or the breakup of
Czechoslovakia after the fall of the Popular Democracies serve the purpose
just as well.

Taiwan also plays the same role in imperial relations that the Zionist
Entity does. It is a client state for the US military-industrial complex, an
a control mechanism to keep the whole area under their watchul eye. Taiwan
for the US empire is in essence the combination of a fleet of aircraft
carriers with a constellation of spy satellites. Exactly the same role the
ZE plays.

So it isn't just that Taiwanese independence is impossible, it is that we
must struggle against it with all our might and correctly expose it for the
imperialist trap it is. Unfortunately, it seems even avowed communists and
revolutionaries, not to mention liberals and social-democrats, are falling
head over heels for the trick.

sks


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