毛泽东选集/在陕甘宁边区参议会的演说

#§§Members of the Assembly!

#§The Assembly has but one objective, the overthrow of Japanese imperialism and the building of a China of New Democracy or, in other words, a China of the revolutionary Three People's Principles.

#§In the China of today there can be no other objective.

#§For our chief enemies now are not domestic, but are the Japanese fascists and the German and Italian fascists.

#§At this moment the Soviet Red Army is fighting for the destiny of the Soviet Union and of the whole of mankind, and we, for our part, are combating Japanese imperialism.

#§Japanese imperialism is continuing its aggression with the purpose of subjugating China.

#§The Communist Party of China stands for uniting all the anti-Japanese forces throughout the country to overthrow Japanese imperialism, and for co-operating with all anti-Japanese parties, classes and nationalities; everyone, excepting traitors, must unite in the common struggle.

#§This has been the consistent stand of the Communist Party.

#§For more than four years the Chinese people have been heroically waging the War of Resistance, a war that has been maintained through the co-operation of the Kuomintang and the Communist Party and of all classes, parties and nationalities.

#§But it is not yet won, and to win it we have to fight on and ensure that the revolutionary Three People's Principles are put into effect.

#§§Why must we put the revolutionary Three People's Principles into effect?

#§Because up to the present time Dr. Sun Yat-sen's revolutionary Three People's Principles have not been translated into reality in all parts of China.

#§Of course socialism is a superior system and has long been in operation in the Soviet Union, but in China today the conditions for it are still lacking.

#§It is the revolutionary Three People's Principles that have been put into effect in our Shensi-Kansu-Ningsia Border Region.

#§We have not gone beyond them in solving any of our practical problems.

#§As far as these principles are concerned, today the Principle of Nationalism means overthrowing Japanese imperialism, and the Principles of Democracy and People's Livelihood mean working in the interests not of just one section but of all the people who are against Japan.

#§Throughout the country the people should enjoy freedom of the person, the right to take part in political activity and the right to protection of property.

#§Throughout the country the people should have the opportunity of voicing their opinions, and they should have clothes to wear, food to eat, work to do and schools to attend; in short, some provision should be made for everyone.

#§Chinese society is small at both ends and big in the middle, that is, the proletariat at one end and the landlord class and big bourgeoisie at the other each constitute only a small minority, while the great majority of the people consists of the peasants, the urban petty bourgeoisie and the other intermediate classes.

#§No political party that wants to run China's affairs properly can do so unless its policy gives consideration to the interests of these classes, unless some provision is made for the members of these classes, and unless they have the right to voice their opinions.

#§The policies put forward by the Chinese Communist Party seek to unite all the people who oppose Japan and take into account the interests of every class that does so, and especially the interests of the peasants, the urban petty bourgeoisie and the other intermediate classes.

#§The policies of the Communist Party, which give all sections of the people the opportunity to voice their opinions and make sure they have work to do and food to eat, are policies embodying the genuinely revolutionary Three People's Principles.

#§In agrarian relations, on the one hand we carry out reduction of rent and interest so that the peasants will have food, and on the other we provide for the payment of the reduced rent and interest so that the landlords, too, can live.

#§In the relations between labour and capital, on the one hand we help the workers so that they have both work and food, and on the other we pursue a policy of developing industry so that the capitalists may obtain some profit.