Taiwanese Communist Party
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Taiwanese Communist Party
臺灣共產黨 |
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| Founded | 5 April 1928 |
| Dissolved | September 1931 |
| Ideology |
Communism Marxism–Leninism Left-wing nationalism Taiwan Independence |
| Political position | Far-left |
| National affiliation |
Japanese Communist Party Communist Party of China |
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| Traditional Chinese | 台灣共產黨 臺灣共產黨 |
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| Simplified Chinese | 台湾共产党 | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Kanji | 台湾共産党 | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Standard Mandarin | |
| Hanyu Pinyin | Táiwān Gòngchǎndǎng |
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| Romanization | De平uae平 Gon去tshae上taon上 |
| Yue: Cantonese | |
| Jyutping | Toi4waan1 Gung6caan2dong2 |
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| Hokkien POJ | Tâi-oân Kiōng-sán Tóng |
The Taiwanese Communist Party (Chinese: 臺灣共產黨 or 台灣共產黨; Japanese: 台湾共産党) was a revolutionary organization active in Japanese-ruled Taiwan. Like the contemporary Taiwanese People's Party, its existence was short, a mere three years, yet its politics and activities were influential in shaping Taiwan's anti-colonial enterprise. For a brief time after World War II individual members continued to play a role in anti-Kuomintang activities, most notably in the aftermath of the February 28 Incident in 1947.
The party was officially formed on April 5, 1928. Its planning went back to as early as 1925, when Moscow-trained Taiwanese students began to contact like-minded individuals in China and Japan. By late 1927 Comintern had instructed Japanese Communists (organized since 1922) to draft political and organizational charters (綱領) for a "Japanese Communist Party, Taiwanese National Branch". Following the draft, Lin Mu-shun and Hsieh Hsueh-hung secretly met in Shanghai with seven others – of whom three represented the Chinese, Korean, and Japanese Communist Parties, respectively – to form the nascent organization.
In 1931, Comintern elevated the group's status from party branch to that of a full-fledged party directly answerable to it.
Organizationally the 1928 charter subjected the Taiwanese Communists to the Japanese party. Politically it described the "Taiwanese nation" (Taiwan Minzu) as those descendants of Koxinga's army and later settlers from southeastern China. Both Koxinga and the Manchu rulers established a feudal system, which in its view began to disintegrate with the introduction of 19th century Western capital into the island. The Republic of Formosa represented a revolutionary movement of feudal landowners, merchants and radical patriots, but one doomed to failure given the immaturity of the native capitalist class. It saw Taiwan's capitalism as utterly dependent upon its Japanese counterpart. The proletariat revolution would be driven by the "contradiction" between the dominant Japanese capital and the native (and poorly developed) capital and rural feudalistic elements. The goal of the party was to unite the workers and the peasants. Toward that goal the party would use the left-leaning Taiwanese Cultural Association as a platform and legal front, as well as expose the "lies" of the Taiwanese People's Party, which had been moving toward the left under Chiang Wei-shui's leadership.
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