我们的这个会为了什么呢？
# What is the purpose of our meeting?
是为了发扬民意，战胜日本，建立新中国。
# It is to facilitate the full expression of the popular will, the defeat of Japan and the building of a new China.
§抗日，大家赞成，这件事已经做了，问题只在于坚持。
#§Armed resistance to Japan, which we all support, is already being carried out, and the question now is only one of persevering in it.
但是，还有一件事，叫做民主，这件事现在还没有做。
# But there is something else, namely, democracy, which is not being carried out.
中国缺少的东西固然很多，但是主要的就是少了两件东西：一件是独立，一件是民主。
# To be sure, China lacks many things, but the main ones are independence and democracy.
这两件东西少了一件，中国的事情就办不好。
# In the absence of either, China's affairs will not go well.
一面少了两件，另一面却多了两件。
# And while there are two things lacking, there are also two superfluous ones.
多了两件什么东西呢？
# What are they?
由于多了这两件东西，所以中国就变成了殖民地半殖民地半封建的国家。
# It is because of these two superfluous things that China has become a colonial, semi-colonial and semi-feudal country.
现在我们全国人民所要的东西，主要的是独立和民主，因此，我们要破坏帝国主义，要破坏封建主义。
# The principal demands of the nation today are for independence and democracy, and therefore imperialism and feudalism must be destroyed.
要坚决地彻底地破坏这些东西，而决不能丝毫留情。
# They must be destroyed resolutely, thoroughly, and without the least mercy.
封建制度要不要破坏？
# Shouldn't the feudal system be destroyed?
不去破坏这些坏东西，你就休想建设。
# Construction is certainly out of the question unless you destroy these evils.
只有把这些东西破坏了，中国才有救，中国才能着手建设，否则不过是讲梦话而已。
# Only by destroying them can China be saved and construction be set going; otherwise, it will all be an idle dream.
只有破坏旧的腐朽的东西，才能建设新的健全的东西。
# Only by destroying the old and the rotten can we build the new and the sound.
把独立和民主合起来，就是民主的抗日，或叫抗日的民主。
# Combine independence and democracy and you have resistance on the basis of democracy, or democracy in the service of resistance.
是新民主主义的政治，是新民主主义的宪政。
# New-democratic government, the constitutional government of New Democracy.
它不是旧的、过了时的、欧美式的、资产阶级专政的所谓民主政治；同时，也还不是苏联式的、无产阶级专政的民主政治。
# Not the old, outmoded, European-American type of so-called democracy which is bourgeois dictatorship, nor as yet the Soviet type of democracy which is the dictatorship of the proletariat.
§那种旧式的民主，在外国行过，现在已经没落，变成反动的东西了。
#§Democracy of the old type, practiced in other countries, is on its way out and has become reactionary.
中国的顽固派所说的宪政，就是外国的旧式的资产阶级的民主政治。
# The sort of constitutional government which the Chinese die-hards are talking about is the old type of bourgeois democracy found abroad.
他们口里说要这种宪政，并不是真正要这种宪政，而是借此欺骗人民。
# But while they talk about it, they do not really want even that; they are using such talk to deceive the people.
他们实际上要的是法西斯主义的一党专政。
# What they really want is a one-party fascist dictatorship.
中国的民族资产阶级则确实想要这种宪政，想要在中国实行资产阶级的专政，但是他们是要不来的。
# The Chinese national bourgeoisie, on the other hand, does want this type of constitutional government and would like to establish a bourgeois dictatorship in China, but it can never succeed.
因为中国人民大家不要这种东西，中国人民不欢迎资产阶级一个阶级来专政。
# For the Chinese people do not want such a government and would not welcome a one-class dictatorship by the bourgeoisie.