Taiwan von links (her verstehen)

In the organizer's words:

The conflict between a capitalist bloc around the USA and one around the People's Republic of China has come to a head in recent years. In the near future, it could escalate over the Taiwan issue, including war. Such an escalation would affect us all. Some local observers support the position of the Chinese Communist Party. It wants to take over the island of Taiwan, which it has declared to be part of the People's Republic of China. Other observers support the capitalist "West", which wants to defend Taiwan as its own zone of influence.

If you want to develop an alternative position, you should not only take a closer look at the geopolitical conflict, but also at the change in class relations in Taiwan itself. Ralf Ruckus will address four points at this event:
- capitalist development from Japanese colonization to the development of the export industry as a "tiger state" to the expansion of Taiwanese capital into Southeast Asia and the People's Republic of China;
- the "guest worker" regime in Taiwan and previous forms of racial division;
- the current economic and geostrategic significance of Taiwan for global capitalism;
- the question of how a left critique of capitalist relations in Taiwan can be combined with a critique of both "Western" and Chinese imperialism.

In 2008,Ralf Ruckus and others founded gongchao.org, a platform for the study of social movements in China. His most recent books are "The Communist Road to Capitalism. Wie soziale Unruhen und deren Eindämmung die Entwicklung Chinas seit 1949 vorantreiben" (Karl Dietz Verlag Berlin, 2024) and "Die Linke in China. An Introduction" (Mandelbaum Verlag, 2023) and the anthology "China von unten. Critical Analysis & Social Struggles" (gongchao.org, 2023). In recent years, Ralf Ruckus has also been involved in an investigation into the conditions and struggles of Indonesian migrant workers in Taiwan and has published several articles on this and other Taiwan-related issues.

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