Call for Papers: 2020 National Forum on the Fundamental Principles of Marxism

The discipline of the Fundamental Principles of Marxism is a superior discipline selected by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (with Professor Cheng Enfu and Researcher Yu Bin as its leaders), and it is also a Beijing municipal key discipline (approved in 2012) at the School of Marxism of China University of Political Science and Law. The series of conferences of this discipline, the “National Forum on the Fundamental Principles of Marxism,” aims to promote mutual exchange and the display of achievements among experts and scholars engaged in the research and teaching of the fundamental principles of Marxism, with the goal of advancing the classical inheritance and innovative development of the fundamental principles of Marxism. The 2020 National Forum on the Fundamental Principles of Marxism is jointly hosted by the Academic Division of Marxism of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, the Academy of Marxism of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, the Beijing University Collaborative Innovation Center for the Study of the Theory of Socialism with Chinese Characteristics (China University of Political Science and Law), and the School of Marxism of Yan’an University. It is scheduled to be held in September 2020, and we sincerely invite fellow scholars from across the country to attend the conference and exchange ideas.

马克思主义基本原理学科是中国社会科学院选列的优势学科（程恩富教授、余斌研究员为负责人），也是中国政法大学马克思主义学院的北京市重点学科（2012年获批）。本学科“全国马克思主义基本原理论坛”系列会议以促进广大从事马克思主义基本原理研究和教学工作的专家学者互相交流、展示成果为宗旨，以推动马克思主义基本原理的经典传承与创新发展为目标。2020年全国马克思主义基本原理论坛由中国社会科学院马克思主义研究学部、中国社会科学院马克思主义研究院、北京高校中国特色社会主义理论研究协同创新中心（中国政法大学）、延安大学马克思主义学院联合主办，拟于2020年9月召开，真诚邀请全国学界同仁参会交流。

The theme of this year’s symposium: “Commemorating the 200th Anniversary of Engels’s Birth.” Specific topics include: (1) Engels’s great contributions to Marxist theory; (2) Lenin’s theory and its contemporary value (the 150th anniversary of Lenin’s birth); (3) The contemporary significance of Engels’s thought; (4) Specialized research on the fundamental principles of Marxism; (5) Discussion on the disciplinary construction of the fundamental principles of Marxism; (6) The Yan’an Spirit and red culture; and so forth.

本届研讨会主题：“纪念恩格斯诞辰200周年”，具体议题包括：（1）恩格斯对马克思主义理论的伟大贡献；（2）列宁理论及其当代价值（列宁诞辰150周年）；（3）恩格斯思想的时代意义；（4）马克思主义基本原理专题研究；（5）马克思主义基本原理学科建设探讨；（6）延安精神与红色文化；等等。

The symposium adopts a “paper-based participation” approach. Experts and scholars planning to attend are requested to write papers around the symposium theme. The paper format should follow the submission requirements of the journal *Marxist Studies*. After the conference, we will select outstanding papers to publish a conference proceedings and recommend them to journals such as *Marxist Studies*, *Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping Theory Studies*, and *Contemporary Economic Research*. The deadline for paper submissions is August 15, 2020.

研讨会实行“以文参会”，请拟参会的专家学者围绕会议主题撰写论文，论文格式参照《马克思主义研究》杂志用稿要求，会后我们将遴选优秀论文出版会议论文集，并推荐给《马克思主义研究》《毛泽东邓小平理论研究》《当代经济研究》等杂志。征文截稿日期为2020年8月15日。

Conference paper email: mksjbylcasscupl@163.com

会议论文邮箱：mksjbylcasscupl@163.com

Conference date: September 2020

会议时间：2020年9月

Conference location: Yan’an, Shaanxi

会议地址：陕西•延安

Academy of Marxism, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

中国社会科学院马克思主义研究院

School of Marxism, Yan’an University

延安大学马克思主义学院

Beijing University Collaborative Innovation Center for the Study of the Theory of Socialism with Chinese Characteristics (China University of Political Science and Law)

北京高校中国特色社会主义理论研究协同创新中心（中国政法大学）

December 28, 2019

2019年12月28日