Sun Yat-sen
Founder of the Republic of China (1866 to 1925); physician, revolutionary and political philosopher; founder of the Kuomintang and first president of its provisional government in 1912.
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Unless the question of China is settled peacefully, a greater world war will be inevitable
Their wordsUnless the Chinese question can be settled peacefully, another world war greater and more terrible than the one just past will be inevitable.
↗The International Development of China (1922)gutenberg.org 1st of 7 in this piece
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Their wordsIn order to solve the Chinese question, I suggest that the vast resources of China be developed internationally under a socialistic scheme, for the good of the world in general and the Chinese people in particular.
↗The International Development of China (1922)gutenberg.org 2nd of 7 in this piece
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Their wordsAs it has been discovered by post-Darwin philosophers that the primary force of human evolution is coöperation and not struggle as that of the animal world, so the fighting nature, a residue of the animal instinct in man, must be eliminated from man, the sooner the better.
↗The International Development of China (1922)gutenberg.org 3rd of 7 in this piece
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Their wordsInternational war is nothing more than pure and simple organized robbery on a grand scale, which all right-minded people deplore.
↗The International Development of China (1922)gutenberg.org 4th of 7 in this piece
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Trusts cannot be suppressed, so the remedy is for the whole people of a country to own them
Their wordsThe trust is a result of economic evolution, therefore it is out of human power to suppress it. The proper remedy is to have it owned by all the people of the country.
↗The International Development of China (1922)gutenberg.org 5th of 7 in this piece
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Their wordsThe goal of material civilization is not private profit but public profit. And the shortest route to it is not competition but coöperation.
↗The International Development of China (1922)gutenberg.org 6th of 7 in this piece
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Their wordsIn a nutshell, it is my idea to make capitalism create socialism in China so that these two economic forces of human evolution will work side by side in future civilization.
↗The International Development of China (1922)gutenberg.org 7th of 7 in this piece
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