259 Quoted by Sun in d’Elia translation, cited, p. 138. The remark does not sound like Lenin. A Communist would not invoke nature, nor would he count the whole membership of an imperialist nation as imperialist. The world, to him, is misguided by a tiny handful of capitalists and traditional ideologues and their hangers-on, not by the masses of any nation.
260 Note, however, the reference in d’Elia translation, cited, p. 76, or the Price translation, p. 18. Sun Yat-sen speaks of _international wars, within_ races, on the lines of social _classes_. He may have meant international wars within the races and across race lines on the basis of the oppressed nations of the world fighting the oppressing nations. He may, however, have meant intra-national class wars. Since he recognized the presence of the class conflict in the developed capitalistic states of the West, this would not necessarily imply his expectation of an intra-national class war in China.
261 Wittfogel, _Sun Yat-sen_, pp. 331-337, gives the whole text of the speech. Sharman, _Sun Yat-sen_, p. 304, refers to it.
262 Wittfogel, _Sun Yat-sen_, p. 335. “Es ist gegen Gerechtigkeit und Menschlichkeit, dass eine Minderheit von vierhundert Millionen eine Mehrheit von neunhundert Millionen unterdrückt....”
263 Wittfogel, _Sun Yat-sen_, p. 333. “Die Europäer halten uns Asiaten durch die Macht ihrer materiellen Errungenschaften zu Boden.”
264 Wittfogel, _Sun Yat-sen_, cited, p. 333. “Wenn wir zweitausendfünf-hundert Jahre zurückdenken, so war China damals das mächtigste Volk der Welt. Es nahm damals eine Stellung ein wie heute Grossbritannien und Amerika. Doch während Grossbritannien und die Vereinigten Staaten heute zur zwei unter einer Reihe von Weltmächten sind, war China damals die einzige grosse Macht.”
265 Ponce, work cited, p. xiv: “_Conozcámonos y nos amaremos más_—decía el gran Sun Yat-sen á sus amigos orientales.” This work is, by the way, the most extensive for its account of Sun’s associations with Koreans, Filipinos, and Japanese. It has been completely overlooked by the various biographers of and commentators on Sun, with the exception of Judge Linebarger, to whom Sun Yat-sen presented a copy of the work.