劉進慶與林書揚的台灣新殖民地社會論

Discussion on Taiwan Neo-colonial Society by LIU Shinkei and LIN Shu-Yang

「新地殖民」地或「新殖民主義」指第二次世界大戰後，前殖民地或半殖民地國家和地區形成表面的主權獨立，實質的經濟政治依附的不平等關係。劉進慶將戰後二十年的台灣社會界定為「新殖民地．半封建社會」，其中關於「新殖民地」的概念使用十分謹慎，更傾向建立貫穿不同時期的「殖民地性」分析理論。林書揚將戰後台灣界定為新殖民地後進資本主義社會，整體呈現附庸性、畸形性和落後性的特徵。該社會性質決定了臺灣舊官僚買辦統治集團與新興資產階級分離主義勢力本質的反動性，臺灣勞動人民唯有通過反帝的民族統一運動才能克服臺灣新殖民地社會狀態。劉進慶晚年對該問題的看法與林書揚趨向一致。

“Neo-colony”or“neocolonialism”refers to how the old colonial system broke down after World War II and imperialism became indirectly colonized by local agents. After independence, the former colonial or semi-colonial countries and regions had some form of independent sovereignty, but their economies and policies were still under imperialist dominance. Liu Shinkei defines the Taiwan society in the two decades following WWII as a“neo-colonial and semi-feudal society”. The concept of“neocolonial”is used with caution, preferring to establish a theory of“coloniality”through various periods. Lin Shuyang defines Taiwan as a neo-colonial capitalist society, with the general characteristics of dependency, deformity, and backwardness. This social nature determines that both the old bureaucratic comprador ruling clique and the emerging bourgeois separatist forces in Taiwan are both reactionary in nature, and that the only way for the working people of Taiwan to overcome the state of Taiwan’s neo-colonial society is through an anti-imperialist national unification movement. Liu Shinkei’s views on this issue in his recent years tend to be consistent with those of Lin Shuyang.