Taiwan Communist Party
Taiwan Communist Party 台灣共產黨 | |
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| Abbreviation | TCP |
| Leader | Wang Lao-yang |
| Founded | 20 July 2008[1] |
| Ideology | Social democracy Three Principles of the People[2] |
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| Traditional Chinese | 台灣共產黨 or 臺灣共產黨 | ||||||||||||||||||
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The Taiwan Communist Party (Chinese: 台灣共產黨 or 臺灣共產黨; abbreviated TCP) is a political party in Taiwan (ROC). It was established on 20 June 2008 in Xinhua,[3] the same day that the Justices of the Constitutional Court ruled the prohibition of communism unconstitutional, making it the first party to legally include "communist" in its name after the ruling.[4]
Before the creation of the TCP, its founder and chairperson, Wang Lao-yang (王老養),[5] had been trying to establish a communist party since 1994.
Though the party includes "communist" in its name, Wang Lao-yang stated that it is a social democratic party, claiming not to understand Marxism-Leninism completely and that he only named his party as such because it attracted more interest.[6] Officially, the party has no subordinate relations with the Communist Party of the People's Republic of China.[5]
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References[edit]
- ^ "List of political parties" (in Chinese). Department of Civil Affairs, ROC. Archived from the original on 2011-06-16. Retrieved 2008-08-17.
- ^ 中国历史上曾经还有十四个“共产党” (in Chinese)
- ^ 台灣共產黨申請14年後獲准成立 (in Chinese). BBC Chinese.com. 2008-07-21. Archived from the original on 2018-01-27. Retrieved 2008-07-23.
- ^ 釋字第 644 號 [Interpretation No. 644] (in Chinese). Justices of Constitutional Court, Judicial Yuan, ROC. Retrieved 2008-07-23.
- ^ a b 臺灣共產黨歷經14年申請終於成立 (in Chinese). 北京新浪網. Retrieved 2008-07-23.[dead link]
- ^ “台湾共产党”主席不懂马列
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