蘇賡哲：不易轉的大彎

蘇賡哲：不易轉的大彎
http://chezmoibooks.blogspot.co.uk/2015/05/blog-post_15.html

他(陶君行)接受美國《紐約時報》訪問時說：他對學聯決定退出十分失望，「六四是我們的集體回憶，是香港民主覺醒的一刻」，年輕人主張香港獨立，是「跌入共產黨的陷阱」，「共產黨就有藉口不給香港民主，因為你現在為獨立而抗爭；不是為民主抗爭」。

陶君行的思路剛好和本土派相反，他還在希望共產黨給香港民主。本土派就是清清楚楚知道，無論你為獨立而抗爭也好，為民主而抗爭也好，為任何東西抗爭都好，共產黨都不會給你民主。這個「清清楚楚知道」，才是香港人真正的民主覺醒。而以前的民主覺醒，全是不切實際的幻夢，全是跌入中共的陷阱。

以前香港泛民和共產黨高度合作，熱烈歡迎香港回歸、堅決主張一個中國、堅決反對台獨、藏獨、疆獨，甚至將五星旗插上釣魚台，但他們得到甚麼民主？甚麼都得不到。本土思潮就是看到泛民無路可走才壯大的，陶君行似乎一無所覺。

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(This is not exactly a translation but rather inspired by the above)

The old "pro-democracy" camp in Hong Kong (or "leftplastics") believe that the younger generation, who fight for independence, "has fallen into the trap of the Chinese communist party (CCP)", and that "it gives excuse for the CCP to not grant us democracy because you are fighting for independence and not democracy."

This reveals the fundamental problem with these pseudo-leftists and why they never achieved anything: they believe the people should not do anything rebellious; just look pitiful and hope that the CCP one day will be in a charitable mood to give you democracy. The rising "localists" see that it is clearly never going to happen; whether you want democracy, or independence, or anything else, you have to fight for it. This is the true "awakening" - all earlier claims of awakening, e.g. after the June 4 massacre, are merely deeper levels of dreams and in fact, those are the real traps - to instil people with nationalist thoughts so they cannot emotionally separate themselves from China.

The leftplastics have always been highly cooperative with the CCP: they campaigned for the "reunification" of HK to China, insist on the "one country" principle and are against Taiwan, Tibet etc separating from China. All these despite knowing full well the atrocious, brutal nature of the CCP. These leftplastics have dominated the stage for the last 30 years (and are still portrayed by the western media as the only force against Beijing), but they have reached the end of their path: whether they like it or not, the rise of localism is inevitable.