1. It must always be people before government, before party and everything else. Always, the people first. The people are fed before the government. People are defended before the government. The people are cared for in all things before the government, before everything else. If one would work in government, this must be understood above all: the people must always come first.
2. Intellectual life must never be stifled. But, intellectual life must also be in support of the cause of the people. This will be a delicate tension, but it must be maintained. Intellectuals are valuable, and absolutely necessary for the proper functioning of any society.
3. There is no room for naked self-interest. All things for the people, not for oneself. This is paramount. In this way, capitalism is absolutely incompatible. There can be no seeking after one’s own prosperity. Prosperity for the people leads to prosperity for all. This may sound naive, but it is absolutely true, given the chance to manifest.
4. There can never be one leader. All leadership must be collective. It must be built from the ground up, not from the top down. The idea of having a single great leader, a head of state, leads to cultism, or to dictatorship. This removes the people from power, which can never be allowed to happen.
5. Disagreements, rivalries, etc, will always happen. These things are inevitable. However, they must never interfere with the work of the people. Whoever is found to be working for the people must be respected, and disagreements must be resolved, rivalries discouraged. Rivalries are nothing more than competing egos. There is no room for excessive ego in the work of the people.
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