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(1) Nationalism is a principle which is to secure racial
freedom and equality. In particular, it is to secure
the "emancipation of the Chinese race", "equality for all peoples within the borders of China" and incidentally "to help all weak and small races" to attain a position of equality with other nations.
Therefore Nationalism is neither narrow-minded
Patriotism nor is it new or old imperialism.
(2) Democracy aims at political freedom and equality.
In particular it confers upon the people "complete
freedom of assembly, speech, publication, dwelling
and belief", and insists upon "universal election to office", the abolition of property restriction
and restriction of the franchise to a particular
sex. In addition to indirectly exercised popular power, it advocates the recall of officials,
initiation of legislation, the referendum and such
like examples of direct popular government.
Therefore Democracy is no autocracy of any parti-
cular class, neither is it a despotism of a few persons.
(3) "The People's Livelihood". This means the attain-
ment by democratic methods of economic liberty and
equality. It involves the socialisation of the means of production and the socialisation of products
that is it aims at securing true and complete economic emancipation for the oppressed classes and in parti-
cular for the property less classes, and plans a radical re-organisation of economic conditions with
the ultimate object of securing complete social
revolution. To achieve this end, all legal economic
measures (such as sympathetic strikes) will be
adopted.