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they are prepared to pay for them. This
will mark the beginning of real politics.
My guess is that by then, our
ssor
fervent sociologists
ng, Profe
Chao Ka
i
would perhaps go
, Tungha
ociology
of S
n
into another period
y, Taiwa
Universit
of dormancy similar
to what
happened after Lee Teng-hui took power.
What Taiwanese sociology needs the most
is its own sociology, but who cares?
This is perhaps Taiwan’s destiny, but
intellectuals should not talk about destiny.
Instead, as intellectuals, students and
especially teachers, should we not face
our responsibilities by providing the
ideological discourse on the future of
this island? This ideological work has no
conflict with action on the streets. There
are restrictions in the state machinery but
not in ideology. The violence unleashed
by the state machinery on the 24th
might perhaps have us reconsider the
whole system of a nation-state and the
deeper implications of its sta