Recently, one by one, the Chinese Communist Party‘s legal experts have been jumping on the bandwagon of Hong Kong‘s electoral system, and even the director of the Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office, Xia Baolong, is reportedly going to make an official pronouncement on amending Hong Kong’s electoral laws. The Chinese Communist Party is trying to subdue Hong Kong in the long run, using all the tools at its disposal to ensure that power is “firmly” in its hands.
It is no surprise that the Communist Party will always lose and win, will always be untrustworthy, and will always be in a position to suppress the people.
For us, the most important thing is not to give up our ideals, sap our will, and lose our direction and principles of action just because of the cruelty of realpolitik. Even if the Chinese Communist Party changes the system or preemptively ensures control of the election, as long as we are united, do not give up, and have adequate psychological and organizational preparation, everything is possible.
The big victory in the District Council election proves that the democrats have a strong popular base in the district. The DCs have been abolished, but the power of the public will always be in the community. Different electoral systems have been designed, and ultimately, the ultimate battle will be fought by one vote in each person’s hand.
Last year, some democrats from different functional constituencies made a lot of efforts to change the original political ecology in their respective constituencies, and this work should be continued to get as many professionals as possible to join, so that under the existing electoral arrangement of functional constituencies, there is not a chance to kill a bloody road.
The new Legislative Council election will be held sooner or later, and a Legislative Council without the democratic camp is unacceptable. In response to the distortion of Hong Kong’s electoral system as planned by the Chinese Communist Party, we should be psychologically prepared, and we should also reflect on ourselves as early as possible, consider regrouping and review our strategies to cope with the longer-term resistance.
The “no big platform” in the anti-China movement has caused the democratic camp in Hong Kong to become a scattered mess, which is detrimental to the long-term struggle. Without a large platform, there is no organization, without organization, there is no unified action, and without unified action, there is no power to win. In my opinion, the absence of a large platform is only suitable for fierce and scattered street protests, but not for long-term and sustained struggles within the system.
To do so, we must find a way to shift the paradigm of struggle, adjust our mentality, reform the organizational form, study the strategy of struggle, and unify our ideology and understanding.
Nowadays, political organizations in Hong Kong are scattered, small in size, cooperating and competing with each other, not quite unified in their thinking, and acting in their own way, which is not sustainable. Because of the scattered strength and weak popularity, it will be difficult to sustain, which is not good for the long-term struggle.
The ability of the democratic organizations to coordinate and reorganize, to gather the small rivers and converge the big streams, is crucial to the future struggle, otherwise they will not survive if they are attacked by the government.
The Democratic Party was originally a large party, the Civic Party was also very strong, and the Labor Party was a little weaker, but it had a regional base. Because of the change of leadership, the image of the democratic party is blurred and the leadership within the party is weak, which makes the phenomenon of “decentering” more and more serious. Some small political parties and organizations that are not well known tend to be more silent because of their low visibility, which is a very unfavorable situation.
A political party cannot last long without its backbone, and the leaders of political parties are not gathered by the masses, but are born after a long struggle and a real-Life political test. We should not deny the leadership core of a political party organization or the role of political leaders in a movement. There is no successful political movement in the world that does not have a core of forces and a political leader. Poland’s Warsaw, the Czech Republic’s Havel, South Africa’s Mandela, and even Burma’s Aung San Suu Kyi are all representative figures.
The older generation of democracy fighters are or will be out of the picture, and the situation is not good with no successor in the political arena. In the future, we will have to send people to run for the Legislative Council, and we will also need a lot of talents in organization, propaganda and research, and these democratic stalwarts will not fall from the sky, but will have to be discovered and cultivated through the struggle.
The Chinese Communist regime wants to break us up, to destroy our martial arts skills, and to decenter us, which is exactly what they want. We have to do the opposite, re-coordinate, regroup and grow our own power. Otherwise, with political power in hand, extensive experience in struggle, and centralized leadership, the CCP will ultimately be no match for us and we will be defeated from all sides.
The resistance movement over the years has given birth to some offspring with leadership qualities, Huang Zhifeng is very good, Zhou Ting also has a rallying point, and Liang Tianqi will come out in a few years, if they still fight alone in the future, then the best people are useless, if the different grassroots organizations are fully coordinated, organizational integration, the development of a unified network leader, the development of expansion, then there will be great promise.
This is the author’s preliminary view, hope to cause more discussion.
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