A Study On The Evolution Of The Three People’s Principles From The Communist Party Of China (1921-1949)

Dr.Sun Yat-sen put forward Three Principles of the People which refers to Nationalism,Democracy, and the People’s livelihood. Dr.Sun Yat-sen carried forward China traditionalculture and absorbed essence of western capitalism political system, and at last he put forwardThree Principles of the People which was the principal part and essence of his politicalthought. With the help of Communist International and Communist Party, Dr. Sun Yat-sendeveloped old Three Principles of the People into new one in1924. This dissertation discussesthat Communist Party of China evolved and developed Three Principles of the People fromthe first deputy to Kuomintang in1924to the founding of the People’s Republic of China in1949.Chapter One: After the second deputy to Communist International in1920, as the easternstrategies of Communist International were formed gradually carried on in China, CommunistParty of China changed the attitude to Three Principles of the People, and helped Kuomintangreshuffle themselves, and established the relationship of cooperation with Kuomintang. Withthe help of Communist International and Communist Party, Dr. Sun Yat-sen developed oldThree Principles of the People into new one that is the basis of the cooperation betweenKuomintang and Communist Party of China. After Dr.Sun Yat-sen’s death in1925,contradictions among the different groups became acute and struggles became intense.Communist Party of China criticized Dai jitao whose thought was against Communist Partyof China immediately. Communist Party of China and Kuomintang started to dispute ThreePrinciples of the people. During the dispute, Communist Party of China tended to cast offThree Principles of the People and started to use Marxism Theory to explain Three Principlesof the People.Chapter Two: After the national revolution failed, Three Principles of the People becamethe powerful weapon which was used to fight against different political groups in Kuomintang.In order to reach their political aims, different groups used the weakness of Three Principlesof the people in varying degrees and distorted Three Principles of the People arbitrarily. Sothere are many different versions of Three Principles of the People. At the same time, becauseJiang jieshi and Wang jingwei destroyed the policy of combination with Russian andCommunist Party of China and they opposed the help to workers and peasants. CommunistParty of China showed negative and criticized attitude to Three Principles of the People.National crisis became serious after East China Incident in1935. In order to stop civil warand resist Japanese aggression together, Communist Party of China looked for and united thevarious political power. Communist Party of China raised the flag of Three Principles of thePeople again after the seventh deputy to Communist International meeting.Chapter Three: After September18th, as Communist Party of China and patriotic figuresand military officers made joint efforts, Three Principles of the People appeared the arena o fhistory again. In1937, through the Three Principles of the People, Communist Party of Chinaand Kuomintang cooperated again and set up anti-Japanese national unit front. But Wangjingwei’s pseudo-Three Principles of the People and Ye qing’s Three Principles of the Peopleattacked Communist Party of China. And Jiang jieshi made a serious of politics to be againstCommunist Party of China. Communist Party of China started to understand the Threeprinciples of the People further after the fierce debate about Three Principles of the People. Atlast Communist Party of China put forward new-democratic theory. During the period of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Communist Party of China raised theconcept of building Three Principles of People republic country, but Kuomintang didn’taccept this concept.Chapter Four: At the beginning of the victory of the Resistance Against JapaneseAgression War, each political party confirmed and accepted the concept of building ThreePrinciples of the People republic country through the Chongqing Negotiations and PoliticalConsultative Conference. But because the civil war broke out in July1946, the try failed.Because of the relative strength between Communist Party of China and Kuomintang andthe variations of the international situation, Communist Party of China changed the generalplan for national reconstruction---new–democratic republic country replaced ThreePrinciples of the People. And Communist Party of China hardly mentioned three mainpolicies. After the civil war broke out, Communist Party of China drew up and put forwardoutline of agrarian law and new-democratic three main economic guidelines and achievedDr.Sun Yat-sen’s ideal of Three Principles of the People all-saidedly.