Marxism Abroad — page 2
502 articles
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The Law of Alternation between Nationalization and Privatization in Advanced Western Capitalist Countries: Logic, Reality and Trends
I. Introduction
Qin Meng
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Similarities and Differences: Merleau-Ponty’s and Marx’s Theories of the “Object”
Marxist philosophy expresses the object starting from human perceptual activity. Merleau-Ponty believes that “Marx needed to introduce the concept of the human object, which was…
Liu Shaoming
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Applying the Theory of the Labour Aristocracy to Analyse British Society
When examining class relations in Britain from the mid-to-late 19th century to the early 20th century, classical Marxist writers and some left-wing scholars all noted the existence…
Liu Yaohui
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Henry’s Phenomenological Reading of Marx
In response to Althusser’s “symptomatic reading” and in opposition to Althusser’s “ruptural” reading of Marx’s entire system of thought, Henry attempts, through phenomenological…
Cui Weifeng
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Western Marxism on Subject Production and Its Theoretical Critique in the Age of Intelligent Media
With generative artificial intelligence (Generative AI) as the underlying technology, the mode of media content production in the age of intelligent media has become AIGC…
Li Xinyue, Dai Xueru
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The Political Lessons of the Argentine Communist Party’s Failure to Transform from a Century-Old Party into a Centenary Major Party
The Argentine Communist Party (hereinafter “the ACP”) is a veritable century-old party on the Argentine political stage and the first communist organization in Latin America to…
Tan DaomingInstitute of Latin American Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
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“The Disappearance of the Other” and the “Dialectic of Violence”——On the “Other” in Byung-Chul Han’s Perspective and Its Critical Dimension
The “other” (das Andere) is an important philosophical category, whose problematic can be traced back to ancient Greece. As a conceptualized, theoretical form of the “other,” from…
Li Chunmin
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The End of the Political and “Post-Democracy” — Rancière’s Philosophical Critique of Contemporary Western Politics
Jacques Rancière is one of the most famous contemporary radical left-wing scholars in the West. Born in 1940, Rancière was once an important member of the famous research group on…
Zhao Dingqi
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On the “Resurrection” of the Subject — From Lukács, Althusser to Badiou
The “resurrection” of the subject is an “Althusser-Badiou” proposition, or, viewed over a longer span, a “Lukács-Althusser-Badiou” proposition. This is mainly because: Badiou’s…
Fan Chunyan
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The Demise of Capitalism: Ultimate Crisis and the Substance of Value
Can it be proven that capitalism will trigger its own ultimate crisis? Has such a crisis already arrived? Although Marx did not specifically conduct a focused discussion on crisis,…
[Canada] David Jensen
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The Crisis of Neoliberal Capitalism
I. The “De-segmentation” of the World Economy
【India】Prabhat Patnaik
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A Critique of American War Capitalism
In 2014, Harvard professor Sven Beckert, in his book *Empire of Cotton: A Global History of Capitalism*, proposed the academic concept of “war capitalism.” This concept, as a…
Yang Ningcong
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Deeply Comprehending the Reform Spirit of Further Deepening Reform Comprehensively
Reform and opening up is an important magic weapon for the cause of the Party and the people to keep pace with the times. The Third Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of…
Hou Huiqin
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The Socialist Views of Nepalese Communists
Since its rise in 1949, the Nepalese communist movement, propelled by communist forces such as the Communist Party of Nepal, the CPN (Maoist Centre), the CPN (Unified…
Yuan Qun, Teng Yan
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The Critique of Biocapitalism by Western Left-Wing Scholars in the 21st Century
Since the 21st century, with the widespread application of biotechnology in production and daily life, the life sciences have penetrated every level of capitalist society at an…
Liu Pengfei and Gu Yongchun
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The 2024 European Parliament Elections and the Development Challenges Facing Left-Wing Parties
The European Parliament elections were a landmark event in the global “big election year” of 2024 and are regarded as a “weathervane” of European politics. In June 2024, the tenth…
Wu Yunxi
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The Gradual Failure of the Traditional “Contractual Order”: The Social Roots of the Rise of Right-Wing Populist Parties in Europe
Over the past decade, right-wing populist parties, once burdened with an extremely negative label in public opinion, have risen rapidly in Europe and achieved historic…
Zhang Jinling
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The Political Pathology of the “Economic Resource Curse”: Research Evolution and Knowledge Genealogy
I. Introduction
Song Yiming
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The Technological Drivers of the Rise of Western Populism in the Digital Age
Since the mid-1990s, Western societies have experienced a wave of rapid digitalization, and populism has risen quietly during this period. The connection between digital technology…
Yang Chunlin
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Is Populism a Thin Ideology?
Populism is undoubtedly one of the most highly attended research topics in the social sciences in recent years. Scholars have engaged in exceptionally intense debates around…
He Tao
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Western Populist Thought and the Dynamics of World Political Restructuring
World politics in the twenty-first century opened with three epochal crises. The September 11, 2001 attacks, the 2008 global financial crisis, and the 2015 European refugee crisis…
Lin Hong
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On the Development Process, Basic Characteristics and Trends of American Trotskyism
Since its emergence, American Trotskyism has maintained a fairly high level of activity, exerting an influence among the底层劳动者 and left-wing intellectuals of the United States that…
Liu Shanshan, Huang Qihong
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An Inquiry into the Living Standards of the Soviet People in the 1970s and 1980s
Regarding the causes of the dissolution of the Soviet Union, a view exists in academic circles that the Soviet Union never broke through the highly centralized planned economic…
Li Yinan
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Anthropocene, Capitalocene, or Occidentalocene?
I. Introduction
Saint-Roman et al.
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A Study of Ecological Imperialism from the Perspective of World-Systems Theory
I. Introduction
Marićo FremMariko Furemu
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"The Economics of Shortage" and the Systemic Crisis of Global Capitalism
Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, a persistent phenomenon of shortage has emerged in global capitalist countries, particularly in the advanced Western nations,…
Zhu Andong and Yang Shuaihong
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How Neo-Fascism Rises from Neoliberal Capitalism
I. Introduction
[US] Ronald W. Cox, Daniel Skidmore-Hess, translated by Zhou Changmin
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New Trends in Western Critical Theories of the Ecological Crisis of Capitalism
The emergence and development of the ecological crisis, as a typical manifestation of the ongoing contestation in the relationship between humanity and nature, has impelled Western…
Wang Xia, Wang LinxiaInstitute of Systems Engineering, Academy of Military SciencesFourth Research Department, Institute of Party History and Literature of the CPC Central Committee
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The Comprehensive Crisis of Contemporary Capitalism and an Analysis of Its Harms
After the 1970s, the phenomenon of polarization between rich and poor in capitalist countries, especially developed capitalist countries, became increasingly severe. Entering the…
Niu XiafeiSchool of Marxism, Tongji UniversityResearch Center for the Great Founding Spirit of the Communist Party of China, Tongji University BranchGerman Research Center, Tongji University
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An Analysis of Karel Kosík’s Marxist Conception of Reality
In his “Theses on Feuerbach,” Marx points out, “The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to change it.” (P502) This assertion does not…
Yan YanSchool of Philosophy, Zhongnan University of Economics and LawCenter for Marxist Social Theory Research, Nanjing University
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The Ecological Socialist as Realist
Introduction
Michael Albert
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Raymond Aron’s Reflections on Marxist Philosophy of History and Their Limitations
During the May 1968 protests in Europe, a popular slogan ran: “Better to be wrong with Sartre than right with Aron.” This was a true depiction of the French intellectual scene at…
Jia Xiangyun
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On the Conservative Elements in Lukács’s *History and Class Consciousness*
Introduction
Yan YanSchool of Philosophy, Zhongnan University of Economics and Law
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A Critique of the Political Economy of Capitalism from the Perspective of Parallax Dialectics
The critique of political economy is an important perspective for analyzing capitalist society. Slavoj Žižek, a leading figure of contemporary Western left-wing theory, recognized…
Shi FenggeSchool of Marxism, Tianjin University
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The Triple Critique of Contemporary Capitalism and Its New Interpretation
Twentieth-century capitalism, especially modern capitalism led by the United States, can to some extent be described as financial capitalism, because since the first economic…
Kong Ming’an
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A “Spectropolitics” for Guiding Future Justice
From the deconstruction of justice to “spectropolitics” is the intellectual belonging of the French theorist Jacques Derrida, and also a clear expression of the justice-seeking…
Derrida and Marx
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Breaking the Predicament of Social “Institution”: Castoriadis’s Critical Interpretation
Cornelius Castoriadis was a Greek-French thinker filled with intense revolutionary passion, once called “the last Western Marxist” by Axel Honneth. Starting from the practical…
Qi Chuang, Zhao Hu
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Deleuze’s Theory of Affect and His Critique of Capitalism
In 1995, the publication of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s “Shame in the Cybernetic Fold: Reading Silvan Tomkins” and Brian Massumi’s “The Autonomy of Affect” announced the affective turn…
Hu Yaohui
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A Review of Overseas Scholarship on China’s Comprehensive Deepening of Reform
General Secretary Xi Jinping has pointed out that comprehensive deepening of reform must be taken as the fundamental driving force for advancing Chinese-path modernization. Since…
Zhang Ke, Liu Xinyue
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A Development Path toward Prosperity, Democracy, and Sustainability*
Editor’s note: Since the 21st century, Cuban socialism, having weathered the historical trials of the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the drastic changes in Eastern Europe, has…
Preface to *The Updating of the Cuban Socialist Model
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“French Theory” and the Philosophy of the Future: The Construction of a New Philosophical Paradigm
Since the second half of the 20th century, against the intellectual backdrop of the “postmodern turn,” the theoretical innovation of contemporary French philosophy has been…
Ouyang Qian
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A Visual Analysis of The Condition of the Working Class in England and Its Study of the English Modernization Process
Engels’s examination of the English modernization process in *The Condition of the Working Class in England* begins with the Industrial Revolution. As the first country to undergo…
Liu Nana
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On the Problematic Logic and Contemporary Value of the Critical Theory of “Transitional Capitalism”
“Political Marxism” is an important school of contemporary foreign Marxism, exerting significant influence in contemporary Anglo-American Marxist academic circles and forming three…
Feng Wangzhou
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Exploring the Direction of Human Progress Amid the Deepening Evolution of Great Changes
In 2023, major-country relations were complex and volatile, geopolitical games unfolded one after another, and contradictions and conflicts emerged in an endless stream. The…
Yu HaiqingVice President and Researcher, Institute of Marxism, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
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Engels and the English Working Class
Although there are constant attempts to distinguish Marx’s intellectual legacy from Engels’s “Marxism” (the so-called “Marx-Engels opposition theory”), both those who regard Marx…
Paul Blackledge
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Foreign Literature on Educational Governance
The report of the 20th National Congress of the CPC pointed out that “education is a major national and Party undertaking.” To accelerate the building of a strong educational…
Tang Feng / Compilation
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World Socialism amid Major Changes in the International Economic and Political Landscape
At present, the world is undergoing changes unseen in a century that are accelerating, and the characteristics of changes in the world, in the times, and in history are becoming…
Zhou Miao and Liu Tingting
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“Fossil Capitalism”: Conceptual Origins, Theoretical Framework, and Theoretical Assessment
“Fossil Capitalism” is a theoretical concept gradually formed by Western left-wing scholars in the process of exploring the relationship between capitalism and the use of fossil…
Huang Yinlin
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The Practice of the Communist Party of Cuba in Strengthening Unity and Building Consensus
Since the beginning of the 21st century, Cuba, focusing on the new changes, new problems, and new challenges in domestic and foreign politics in the era of globalization, has…
Liu Xiangyang, He Qin
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Systemic Dialectics and the Neue Marx-Lektüre: An Examination from a Comparative Perspective
The question of the relationship between Marx and Hegel is an important topic in foreign Marxology. Initially, foreign scholars examined the Marx-Hegel relationship only from the…
Lu Kejian