1. Do you want to overthrow the Qing government?

2, do you want to establish a * * * and regime;

3. Do you want to change the feudal land system?

From the 31st year of Guangxu in Qing Dynasty (1905) to the 33rd year, the bourgeois revolutionaries represented by Sun Yat-sen and the bourgeois reformers represented by Kang Youwei and Liang Qichao launched a great debate on the ideological and theoretical front.

After this great debate, the boundaries between revolutionaries and reformists were further drawn, and people clearly realized the necessity of democratic revolution, so they left the reformists and joined the revolution.

The revolutionaries criticized feudal cultural thoughts, which made the western bourgeois democratic thoughts and Sun Yat-sen's Three People's Principles spread more widely and promoted the growth of revolutionary forces. The reformers also have to admit that after the debate, "the forces of the revolutionary party" and "if the rivers burst their banks, it is impossible to resist them."

However, due to the limitations of class and history, the revolutionaries failed to give completely correct answers to a series of fundamental questions of China's democratic revolution.

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There are differences in principle between revolutionaries and reformists in the debate, but there are also some similarities. Both factions are opposed to imperialist aggression, but they all excuse the invaders. They think that "people must be bring disgrace to oneself, and later people must be bring disgrace to oneself". "There are ways to die. How can you blame others for death!" Both factions dare not directly put forward slogans against imperialism, but hope to win the support and sponsorship of imperialism.

Both factions oppose feudal autocracy and advocate the establishment of a democratic political system, but both lack understanding of the arduousness of anti-feudalism. Reformists only want a "Congress" and revolutionaries a "democratically elected president", thinking that these are all democratic political constructions.

The debate shows that the revolutionaries and reformists represent the interests of the same class-the bourgeoisie, and are the political wings of this class: the leftist revolutionaries hope to open the way for the development of capitalism with the pain of revolution; Right-wing reformers hope to strive for a better situation for themselves without taking the risk of revolution.

Baidu Encyclopedia-Debate between Revolutionaries and Reformers