No.1 2023

CONTENTS

Re-examining Social Historical Laws       Jia Gaojian（1）

Guiding Principles from the CPC’s 20th National Congress

The CPC’s 20th National Congress and the Chinese Path to Modernization 

Zhang Shengen（8）

Xi Jinping’s Thinking on Eco-civilization: A Scientific System    Huan Qingzhi（16）

How Foreign Communist Parties Understand and Evaluate the Chinese Path to Modernization                                        Yu Weihai & Chen Jiao（26）

Research on Fundamental Marxist Theories

The Philosophical Significance of Young Engels’ s “Another Way” : Based on The Conditions of the Working Class in England       Liu Huaiyu（35）

On the Philosophical Attribute of Marxist Philosophy and Its Methodological Principles

         Xia Ying（45）

Marx’s View of Modernity and the Theoretical Foundation of the New Chinese Path to

  Modernization                          Zhuang Yougang & Gu Yi（55）

Beyond the Controversy between“Be”and “Not to Be”: On the Hegelian Origin of Marx’s Normative Thought                      Li Yushu（63）

An Analysis of the Interpretation Mode of Marx’s View of Free Time

       Zheng Wei & Cao Yidi（71）

Reunderstanding Marx’s Labor Force Reproduction Theory: A Dynamic Analysis of Two Kinds of Circulation Processes              Huang Zeqing & Li Lianbo（78）

Research on Political Economy with Chinese Characteristics

On the Historicity of the Law of Value       Ding Baojun & Yao Zhicai（85）

The Three-Fold Logic of the Healthy Development of Capital under the Socialist System

              Fan Xin & Song Xiaoyu（93）

Dialogue and Interviews

China’s Historical Mission in the 21st Century: An Interview with Dmitry Novikov,

  Deputy Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the

  Russian FederationLi Xiaomeng & Ji Yuesheng（102）

Monographic Studies: Global Governance and Reflection on Globalization China’s Perspectives and Practices on Solving the Global Governance Deficit

        Wu Zhicheng & Wang Huiting（111）

The World Needs Multidimensional and Steady Globalization: Reflective Globalization

  and Reflection on GlobalizationXue Xiaoyuan（120）

Research on the History of Marxist Communication

How Overseas Chinese Communicate Marxism-Leninism to China before and after

  the Founding of the CPCRen Guixiang（128）

How the Theory of Knowing and Doing Led Chinese Intellectuals to Embrace Marxism

  in the First PlaceWang Gang & Fan Xia（136）

Monographic Studies: The European Order Dilemma and Reflection

Shifts in the European Regional Order: Dilemma and ReflectionHe Zhigao（143）

The Motivation, Path and Dilemma of Building an Independent Knowledge Base

  in Postwar EuropeWang Xi（152）

Research on Marxism Abroad

Risk Thinking and Bio-politics in the 21st CenturyHe Ping（161）

“Analogical Interpretation” and “Reverse Analogical Interpretation”: Research on

  Western Marxism in China in the 1980sChen Xiangqin（170）

Democracy, Identity, and Discourse: Laclau’s Diagnosis on the Western Populism Crisis

Jiang Zhaoyang（179）

How Social Ecological Transformation Is Possible: A Study on Green-Left Politics

  in Contemporary BritainLi Xuejiao（186）

On the Marxist Factors in MacIntyre’s Criticism of Modern Moral Philosophy

Han Wei（195）

MAIN ABSTRACTS

Re-examining Social Historical Laws

Jia Gaojian

For a long time, the academic community has conducted in-depth research on the principles of historical materialism regarding social historical laws, and has achieved valuable results; however, the discussion has often encountered various controversies and questions, and some vague and incorrect perceptions still exist in a considerable scope. For this reason, it is necessary to review and explore the relevant issues on the basis of the existing foundations, in order to deepen the research in this area. This paper mainly focuses on the following issues: First, the relationship between the subject, subjectivity and objective laws. It is argued that we should return to the basic position of historical materialism, integrate determinism and the choice theory, and oppose the antagonistic thinking of “either/or.” Second, the understanding and grasping the law itself. It is argued that the basic principles of historical materialism should be comprehensively and accurately understood, and the dialectical nature of social historical laws should be profoundly understood to prevent incorrect tendencies such as simplification and one-sidedness. Third, the different connotations of social historical laws and the general process of social historical development. It is argued that the social historical laws of two different meanings should be distinguished, and the logical provisions of the so-called general process and its complex connection with the special process should be clarified, so as to dispel the misunderstanding about this issue.

The CPC’s 20th National Congress and the Chinese Path to Modernization

Zhang Shengen

The 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China was a meeting of great importance. It took place at a critical time as the Chinese people embarked on a new journey to build China into a modern socialist country in all respects and advance toward the Second Centenary Goal. Providing a comprehensive and systematic explanation of the Chinese path to modernization, the political report to this congress is the action guide for advancing the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation on all fronts through a Chinese path to modernization. First, it defined a distinctive theme, identifying building China into a modern socialist country in all respects as the core content of the theme of the congress. Second, it proposed to advance the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation on all fronts through a Chinese path to modernization and clarify the mission and task and systematically explain the Chinese characteristics, essential requirements and five major principles that must be firmly grasped for the Chinese path to modernization. Third, it formulated principles and policies and made specific plans for economic, political, cultural, social and ecological advancement in accordance with the Five-Sphere Integrated Plan and the Four-Pronged Comprehensive Strategy. Fourth, it created the external environment by making plans for promoting national security, national defense and military development, national reunification and the handling of foreign affairs. Fifth, it clarified the central position of the Party in modernization, emphasizing the importance of full and strict self-governance of the Party and making important plans.

Xi Jinping’s Thinking on Eco-civilization: A Scientific System

Huan Qingzhi

 If the meaning Xi Jinping’s thinking on eco-civilization, a scientific system, which is the object of academic research, is understood as the scientific truthfulness of a theoretical knowledge system and the scientific rationality of its systematic, academic interpretation and elaboration by scholars, then the latter can be carefully examined under the perspective of three major systems: academic, discourse and discipline systems, so as to improve the scientific systematization of the explanation and research of Xi Jinping’s thinking on eco-civilization. In general, the academic analysis and explanation of Xi Jinping’s thinking on eco-civilization has attracted much attention from more scholars and produced richer and more substantial academic results than the development of the discourse system and the disciplinary system, while the development of the latter two dimensions has been relatively weak, largely due to the complexity or high demands of these fields.

Marx’s View of Modernity and the Theoretical Foundationof the New Chinese Path to Modernization

 Zhuang Yougang & Gu Yi

Marx had a rich discourse on modern society, but did not form a systematic theory of his view of modernity. As for his view of modernity, we can understand it from several basic aspects, such as Marx’s methodological principles for grasping “modernity,” his main dimensions of clarifying the meaning of “modernity,” and his understanding of the development process of “modernity.” Starting from the historical transformation of human existence and the historical transformation of the material production mode andgrasping the connotation of “modernity” in the comparison between “classical” and “modern” factors formthe main methodology of Marx’s view of modernity. The transformation of labor mode, the historical change of communication, the transition of economic form and the reversal of urban-rural relations are the main dimensions of Marx’s clarification of the connotation of “modern.” From the perspective of historical materialism, Marx not only discussed how modern society came into being, but also clarified the operation rules of modern society, and on this basis pointed out the historical development trend of modern society. The combination of horizontal grasp and vertical investigation constitutes Marx’s complete view of modernity. Marx’s view of modernity is the fundamental ideological resource and theoretical basis for the exploration of the new Chinese path to modernization. A comprehensive presentation of Marx’s view of modernity will help to consolidate the theoretical basis of the new Chinese path to modernization.

The Three-Fold Logic of the Healthy Development of Capital under the Socialist System

Fan Xin & Song Xiaoyu

Regulating and guiding the healthy development of capital under the socialist system is not only a major theoretical creation made by the Communist Party of China based on China’s practice, but also a significant practical exploration for the smooth development of the modernization program of the Party and the country. Based on the analytical framework of a unified theoretical logic, historical logic and practical logic, this paper discusses the rationality of capital under the socialist system on the basis that capital is a materialized production relationship, and analyzes the stages of the evolution of capital theory under the socialist system. Along with the deepening of the Party Central Committee’s understanding of the laws of capital under the socialist system, China’s capital policy has gone through the development of the stage of negating and eliminating capital, the stage of supporting and operating capital, and the stage of regulating and guiding capital. This is a true picture of capital theory and capital policy helping and complementing each other. In response to the problems such as the disorderly expansion of capital in the new development stage, we should be guaranteed by adhering to CPC leadership and guide by the theory of capital under the socialist system, and aim at common prosperity, which is the practical logic of regulating and guiding the healthy development of capital.

China’s Perspectives and Practices on Solving the Global Governance Deficit

Wu Zhicheng & Wang Huiting

As the world enters a new period of turbulence and change, the problem of global governance deficit is becoming more and more serious. The deficit is manifested in the weakening of the effectiveness of global governance, the uneven distribution of governance achievements, the insufficient momentum of the national supply of public goods, and the dilemma of the global governance mechanisms. The essence of the deficit lies in the complex and prominent contradiction between supply and demand in global governance. The global governance deficit continues to expand and increase due to the conflict between the overlapping of global issues and the dispersion of national governance capacity, the conflict between the requirement of co-governance and hemispheric and opportunistic governance, the global governance system lagging behind the change of the global power structure, the conflict between national selfishness and global governance altruism, the dilemma of fragmentation of global governance mechanisms, and the inability of existing global governance concepts to adapt to the development of global governance practices. As a responsible major country, China has contributed its wisdom and strength to solving the global governance deficit through accelerating the modernization of its governance system and capacity, promoting the development of a human community with a shared future, propelling the high-quality pursuit of the Belt and Road Initiative, participating in and promoting the reform of the global governance mechanisms, strengthening the global governance capacity.