18 min
Is American Dependency Actually “Self-Determination” for Hong Kong? Qiao Collective Audio
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- Politics
An important essay translated by Qiao Collective from The International, a Hong Kong-based Marxist group. Published in August 2019, author Chu Lap-tung questions the pro-democracy camp’s romanticization of political dependency under the imperialist West.
Taking up Puerto Rico as a tragic case study of US imperial parasitism, Chu fundamentally challenges the Pan-Dem presumption that “Western imperialism’s colonial governments [are] not only ‘more free’ but also ‘more democratic.’ ”
Read the full article: https://www.qiaocollective.com/articles/hong-kong-dependency
Music: Seeing You Again by Ketsa is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License available at https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Ketsa/Raising_Frequecy/Seeing_You_Again
An important essay translated by Qiao Collective from The International, a Hong Kong-based Marxist group. Published in August 2019, author Chu Lap-tung questions the pro-democracy camp’s romanticization of political dependency under the imperialist West.
Taking up Puerto Rico as a tragic case study of US imperial parasitism, Chu fundamentally challenges the Pan-Dem presumption that “Western imperialism’s colonial governments [are] not only ‘more free’ but also ‘more democratic.’ ”
Read the full article: https://www.qiaocollective.com/articles/hong-kong-dependency
Music: Seeing You Again by Ketsa is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License available at https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Ketsa/Raising_Frequecy/Seeing_You_Again
18 min