Principles
The Party holds 13 Principles:
Principle 1. The Human Being as an Embodied Spirit or a Psychocorporeal Being.
Principle 2. The Human Being's Normal Capacity for Personhood, Entailing Moral Responsibility, Rights, and Duties.
Principle 3. The Essential Equality of Human Beings.
Principle 4. The Social Nature of Human Beings and the State as a Natural Institution.
Principle 5. The Principle of Subsidiarity
Principle 6. Preferential Option for the Poor.
Principle 7. Work as a Right and a Duty of Human Beings.
Principle 8. The Obligation to Patriotism.
Principle 9. The Rights of Nations.
Principle 10. The Universal Purpose of Property or Custodianship for the Common Good.
Principle 11. The Transcendent Moral Responsibility of Human Beings and the Primacy of Moral Law.
Principle 12. The Moral Ambivalence of Human Persons --- the capacity for both good and evil which requires checks and balance in human systems and power structures.
Principle 13. The Abuse of Power in All Fields of Human Activity as the Real Structural Origin of Alienation. This is opposed to Marx's roots of alienation which is economic. Alienation is the result of arrogation of egregious power at the expense of others.
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