Sun Yat-sen's The Three Principles of the People

[Ilyich]

So, I got a copy of Sun Yat-sen's The Three Principle's of the People and an accompanying disk for free today. I don't know too much about Sun and his principles other than the fact that his legacy as Kuomintang leader was claimed by both Mao Zedong and Chiang Kai-shek apparently, that he has been refereed to as a socialist, and that his principles are nationalism, democracy, and livelihood. Or, so I've heard. What does everyone here think of Sun and/or his principles. I have no opinion yet and I am trying to at least partially form one before I read he text.

[Die Neue Zeit]

He may well have been the very last Bourgeois Socialist from a school of thought originating from just before Marx's Communist League.

[kurr]

Regarding The Three Principles:



"It's platform was Dr. Sun's San Min Chu I or 'Three Principles of the People.' These principles were known as nationalism livelihood and democracy'. In brief, they meant national liberation and unification; restoration of China's economic independence and the regeneration of rural life; and universal education and enlightenment of the whole nation in preparation for modern, popular government in China."

http://books.google.com/books?id=D2auy-nwS5IC&pg=PA250&lpg=PA250&dq=Sun+Yat+Sen+and+the+Bolsheviks&source=bl&ots=HodQj9M1u0&sig=2V_5TGdxxr9kwbzSmVSXoOT1AYU&hl=en#v=onepage&q=Sun%20Yat%20Sen%20and%20the%20Bolsheviks&f=false

Sun Yat Sen was a great anti-colonial revolutionary. He pushed for unity with the nationalists and the communists of China (which unfortunately broke apart after his death) and had a great relationship with Lenin and the Soviet Union.