Socialism with Chinese Characteristics

May 20, 2023 CEN_com 0

Roland Boer is a Professor of Marxist philosophy in the School of Marxism at Dalian University of Technology in China, and a member of the Communist Party of Australia. He lives in China and is fluent in Mandarin. Earlier, he taught at Renmin University of China and in a number of universities in Australia. He has also been a visiting professor in the Academy of Marxism in Beijing (within the […]

New Environmental History of Socialism

May 20, 2023 CEN_com 0

Review of: Salvatore Engel-Di Mauro, Socialist States and the Environment: Lessons for Ecosocialist Futures (London: Pluto Press, 2021), 288 pages, $26.95, paperback. Review by associate professor Andy Bruno. Starting in the late 1970s, a narrative emerged about the extreme levels of environmental damage in the Soviet Union and, by implication, most state-socialist countries. The explosion and initial cover-up at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in 1986 did much to crystallize this image […]

Cuban perspective on Chinese Marxism

May 19, 2023 CEN_com 0

China Environment Net is pleased to share the following detailed and insightful article by Carlos Miguel Pereira Hernández, Cuba’s ambassador to China. Pereira delves into the meaning of Socialism with Chinese Characteristics, carefully noting that it should be understood on its own terms, rather than being compared against a one-size-fits-all model: “There is no unique definition of socialism, and any analysis on the issue must start by accepting that visions […]

The materialist conception of nature

May 19, 2023 CEN_com 0

In the following article reprinted from the Monthly Review, Professor John Bellamy Foster, a leading proponent of ecological Marxism and editor of Monthly Review, is interviewed by Greek left-wing economist Haris Golemis. “I challenge the Western left to recognize that a materialist conception of history is meaningless without a materialist conception of nature—plus the role of dialectics as necessarily related to both. In this way, the long detour of Western […]

Origins of Ecological Critique in Marxism

May 19, 2023 CEN_com 0

Published2021/06/08 John Bellamy Foster’s The Return of Nature: Socialism and Ecology (Monthly Review Press, 2020) shows the role played by biologists and other scientists with a non-mechanistic, materialist outlook, alongside various Marxists, in laying the foundations of ecology in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Foster’s book The Return of Nature picks up where the author left off 20 years ago in Marx’s Ecology, which, as the title indicates, addresses the aspects of Marx’s […]

Xi Jinping and 21st century Marxism

May 15, 2023 CEN_com 0

Chinese President Xi Jinping said on Thursday 28 July 2022 that Marxism has been showing new vitality in the 21st century, calling on all Marxist political parties to make the theory more relevant to the national conditions and the times. Xi made the remarks in a congratulatory message to the Communist Party of China (CPC) and World Marxist Political Parties Forum in Beijing. Marxism is an open, developing theory, said […]

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The ‘deep message’ of the Chinese President’s extensive inspection tour of Xinjiang

July 17, 2022 CEN_com 0

CGTN correspondent, Robert Lawrence Kuhn asks: What is the ‘deep message’ of the Chinese President’s extensive inspection tour of Northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region? Why now, his first trip to Xinjiang in eight years? It is not a coincidence that President Xi’s two most-recent trips, Hong Kong and Xinjiang, within two weeks, were both aimed at signifying national unity in that both areas have witnessed social disruptions and both […]

US calls for China to adopt policy to kill millions of Chinese by Covid in name of “human rights”

February 11, 2022 CEN_com 0

The following article was published by John Ross in Learning From China. It was orginally appeared in Chinese at Guancha.cn on 29 January 2022.https://www.learningfromchina.net/us-calls-for-china-to-adopt-policy-to-kill-millions-of-chinese-by-covid-in-name-of-human-rights/ ******* Few issues show more clearly the real difference between the pro-human oriented policies of socialism in China and pro-capital oriented policies of the U.S. than the two countries response to the Covid pandemic. The U.S., while verbally proclaiming support for “human rights”, is actively campaigning for a […]

China makes significant strides in modernization drive

January 26, 2022 CEN_com 0

Provincial-level regions across China have hosted their annual legislative and political consultative meetings in recent weeks, underlining sci-tech innovation, common prosperity, further opening up and green development, as the country works in full throttle to achieve its second centenary goal. The year 2021 was a milestone year for China, marking a fresh start. Upon completing the building of a moderately prosperous society in all respects, the world’s most populous country […]

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Xi says China will stay committed to promoting ecological conservation

January 18, 2022 CEN_com 0

China will stay committed to promoting ecological conservation, actively engage in international cooperation on climate, and jointly work for a complete transition to a greener economy and society, Chinese President Xi Jinping said on Monday in remarks in a video speech at the 2022 World Economic Forum virtual session..  Following the idea of “lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets,” the country has carried out holistic conservation and systematic […]