1. DEMOCRACY
Any system of communication which confers lifelong privileges on some while requiring others to devote years of effort to achieving a lesser degree of competence is fundamentally antidemocratic. While Esperanto, like any language, is not perfect, it far outstrips other languages as a means of egalitarian communication on a world scale.
     We maintain that language inequality gives rise to communicative inequality at all levels, including the international level. We are a movement for democratic communication.