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

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