Pan-Green Other Republic of China rule Japanese rule The Taiwan independence Left (Chinese: 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.
Some of the Taiwan Independence Left collaborate with the main moderate Taiwanese nationalist Democratic Progressive Party and others distance themselves.
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.
[citation needed] 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.