No.6 2022

CONTENTS

Features

Gaining a Deep Understanding of the Historical Inevitability of the Two Affirms

Chen Li（1）

On the Guiding Principles of the Party’s 20th National Congress

Full and Rigorous Party Self-Governance Is an Unceasing EndeavorFeng Jun（16）

On the Five Paths China Must Take or Its Understanding in Five AreasYang Mingwei（18）

Promote Prosperity for All to Pass New TestsJiang Shuping（21）

Use the Chinese Path to Modernization to Promote the Rejuvenation of the Chinese Nation

Zhang Airu（23）

High-Quality Development Is the Key to Realizing Modernization the Chinese   Way

Wu Li（25）

The Historical and Theoretical Foundations for the Fact That Marxism Works

Hu Changshuan（28）

We Chinese Must Harness Our Indomitable Fighting Spirit to Open Up New Horizons

  for Our Cause on Our New JourneyFan Rui（30）

Research on Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era

On the Social Development Mechanism for Socialism with Chinese Characteristics

  in the New EraQiu Gengtian（33）

The Cultural Backdrop for Us Chinese to Follow Our Own Path Zhang Ming（41）

China’s COVID Response Highlights the Significant Transformation of Its Soft Power

Yan Xianjun & Gao Ya（48）

Research on Fundamental Marxist Theories

Marx’s View of World History and Its Contemporary RelevanceWu Hongzheng（55）

Issues Concerning Marx’s Abstract of Rousseau’s The Social ContractJiang Haibo（64）

Marxist Classical Authors’ Methodological Critique of Positivism

Guo Taihui & Fu Zhengfa（71）

Exploration of the Theory of Social Development of Marx’s Conspectus of Lewis

  Morgan’s Ancient Society: Question Norman Levine’s ViewpointLin Feng（79）

Marx’s Critique of Stirner’s Critical View of the State: Based on the MEGA2 Version

  of The German IdeologyWang Daiyue（86）

How Marx’s Moral Philosophy Applies and Transcends the Basic Methods

  of Moral PhenomenologyLiu Shaoming（94）

Research on Political Economy with Chinese Characteristics

Research on the Practical Forms and Improvement Paths of the Certification of Rural

  Land Rights under the Rural Revitalization Strategy

Yan Xiaolong & Yan Chiyang（101）

The Operating Laws of the Platform Economy and Implications for China’s

  Macroeconomic GovernanceCai Wanhuan & Zhang Zizhu（109）

Research on the Four Histories

The Basic Demands and Fundamental Flaws of Proudhon’s View of Justice:

  An Analysis Based on the Methodology of Historical Materialism

Wang Fengming & Wang Luyuan（116）

Research on Political Communication

Political Communication and the Cultivation of Historical InitiativeGao Guoxi（125）

Research on the Innovation of the Theory and Path for Developing the Political

  Communication Curriculum in Colleges and Universities in the New Era:

  From the Perspective of Social OperationDai Yuqi & Li Jiyuan（132）

Research on Marxism Abroad

The Natural Element in Kant’s Concept of Freedom: Adorno’s Analysis and Its Relevance

Wang Xiaosheng（139）

Research on the Thoughts of Social Integration of the Critical Theories of the

  Frankfurt SchoolHe Cuixiang（148）

Badiou’s Philosophy of Event and the Problem of China Liu Xin（157）

A Political Economy Critique of Digital Prosumption Capitalism

Zhang Te & Ying Qi（164）

On Althusser’s Critique of Gramscianism and EurocommunismTian Yan（172）

Psychopower and Perceptual Penetration in the Digital Age: On Byung-chul Han’s

  Digital Psychopolitical ThoughtXian Huisheng（180）

The Meaning Matrix of Neo-Kantianism, Marxism and Psychoanalysis: Revaluing

  Adorno’s The Concept of the Unconscious in the Transcendental TheoryJin Ao（189）

Books and Book Review

Understanding Marxism in the 21st Century from Historical and Future Perspectives

Sun Laibin（199）

Contents: 2022（204）

MAIN ABSTRACTS

 Gaining a Deep Understanding of the Historical Inevitability of the Two Affirms

Chen Li

The 20th National Party Congress categorically stated that the Two Affirms are the major political achievements of the Party in the new era, and the decisive factor in promoting the historic achievements and changes of the Party and the country’s cause. The historical inevitability of the Two Affirms comes from the deep theoretical origin of Marxism and the practice of the international communist movement, from the century-long magnificent struggle of our Party, and from the great practice of making historic achievements and changes in the new era, and has profound theoretical and practical bases. A deep understanding of the historical inevitability of the Two Affirms is integral to further deepening the understanding of the decisive significance of the Two Affirms, becoming more aware of the need to ensure the Two Upholds in terms of thinking, action and political principles, and striving in unity to build a modern socialist country in all respects and promote the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation on all fronts.

On the Guiding Principles of the Party’s 20th National Congress

 Feng Jun

The 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China was held successfully in Beijing from October 16 to 22, 2022. It is a meeting of great importance that took place at a critical time as the entire Party and the Chinese people embarkedon a new journey to build China into a modern socialist country in all respects and advance toward the Second Centenary Goal. The congress upheld socialism with Chinese characteristics, fully implemented Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, carried forward the great founding spirit of the Party, stayed confident and built strength, upheld fundamental principles and broke new ground, forged ahead with enterprise and fortitude, and called on the Chinese people to strive in unity to build a modern socialist country in all respects and advance the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation on all fronts. For the purpose of promoting the guiding principles from the 20th National Party Congress and Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era and giving impetus to research on related issues by theoreticians, this journal hereby publishes articles written by experts and scholars from the the Institute of Party History and Literature of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences on the new ideas, new concepts and new thinking of the 20th National Party Congress.

On the Social Development Mechanism forSocialism with Chinese Characteristics in the New Era

 Qiu Gengtian

 he theory of the social development mechanism provides an ideal analytical perspective for us to grasp socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era. The contradiction between unbalanced and inadequate development and the people’s ever-growing need for a better life constitutes the driving mechanism for the development of socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era. This mechanism is formed based on the change in the the principal contradiction of Chinese society in the new era. The contradiction between disorder and coordination constitutes the balance mechanism of socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era. The contradiction between theory and practice constitutes the guiding mechanism of socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era, and the key element of this theory is Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era. According to the principle of the dialectical relationship between theory and practice, Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era and the practice of socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era are found in the same time and space and directly related to each other. Only Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era can answer the most scientific theoretical and practical questions such as what socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era is, and how to go about building it, and most correctly guide socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era toward success.
 

The Cultural Backdrop for Us Chinese to Follow Our Own Path

 Zhang Ming

  “Following our own path” is the core element of the history of the Party over the past century and the history of adapting Marxism to the Chinese context. It is difficult to grasp the farther and broader theoretical coordinates behind “following our own path” simply from the China’s specific realities. Grasping “following our own path” from the long history of Chinese civilization, especially from the perspective of the Communist Party of China’s promotion of the integration of the fundamental tenets of Marxism with the best of traditional Chinese culture, we can transcend the problem of narrowing the theoretical horizon brought about by a single historical perspective and a short review distance. Then we can grasp the deep cultural backdrop of “following our own path” and its historical logical inevitability from the perspective of a broad history. The Chinese characteristics of Chinese civilization are more of a worldview and methodology, such as the universally related cosmology, the harmonious rather than conflicted view of life, and the ever-changing outlook on development, which have profoundly shaped the inherent Chinese ways of action. In the historical process of adapting Marxism to the Chinese context and the needs of the times, the Chinese Communists have endogenized the Chinese characteristics into a worldview and methodology to guide the choice of path through the creative transformation and development of the best of traditional Chinese culture. This is precisely the inherent cultural backdrop that enabled the Communist Party of China to successfully blaze a unique Chinese in the different historical periods of revolution, construction, and reform.

Marx’s View of World History and Its ontemporary Relevance

 Wu Hongzheng

Who created world history? Are the laws of world history knowable? Should world history lead to permanent peace? These are the basic questions of the world view of history. German classical philosophy denies that people are the creator of world history, Kant believed that the laws of world history are unknowable, and Hegel abandoned the ideal of permanent peace. Marx made a profound critique of the abovementioned idealistic view of world history. Marx believed that world history was created by human beings through labor, and revealed the two inevitable laws in the process of world history. He put forward a vision for achieving the world’s permanent peace by eliminating class struggle. The relevance of Marx’s world history concept for the contemporary building of a human community with a shared future and the construction of a new form of civilization is that peace and development are still the themes of today’s world history, and it is necessary to further fight against historical nihilism with new characteristics of contemporary capital logic, so as to establish common human values for building a human community with a shared future.

Research on the Practical Forms and Improvement Pathsof the Certification of Rural Land Rights underthe Rural Revitalization Strategy

 Yan Xiaolong & Yan Chiyang

 The institutional basis of rural revitalization is the basic rural management system, and the property rights system is based on the certification of rural land rights. In a narrow sense, the certification of rural land rights refers to the certification of contracted land-use rights or the certification of the contracted land management rights as property rights. In a broader sense, it refers to a system of the certification of land property rights, which contains at least three meanings, namely, the certification of contracted land management rights or the certification of contracted land rights based on the core of property rights; the certification of the separation of the three rights of land based on the property rights framework; and the certification of the characteristics and features of land property rights based on the nature of property rights. As the property rights institutional foundation for rural revitalization, the certification of rural land rights has many functional roles in promoting rural revitalization, including providing property rights for driving the supply-side structural reform of agriculture, laying the property rights foundations for the building of a new agricultural management system, creating the property rights environment for the growth of new entities, and creating the property rights logic for the effective governance for rural revitalization.

The Operating Laws of the Platform Economy and Implications for China’s Macroeconomic Governance

Cai Wanhuan & Zhang Zizhu

  With big data and digital technology, the platform economy has adopted the operation mode and operation laws different from traditional enterprises, formed an organized and planned market, improved the efficiency of the commodity circulation and capital turnover, and reshaped the mode of production and reproduction. The operation laws of the platform economy include: matching supply and demand accurately through big data, and connecting production and consumption accurately; linking all industrial sectors with data and digital infrastructure; using algorithm to improve the prediction ability and the organization and planning of economic operations; and forming comprehensive monopoly through scale effect and the ownership of data. The above laws boil down to accuracy, wholeness, organization and monopoly. In addition, the operating laws contain inherent contradictions: the accuracy of the platform model cannot eliminate competition, and there is still overproduction; the platform giants seize most of the profits and squeeze the living space of other enterprises; the organization and plan of platform enterprises solidify the relationship between dominance and dependence; and the monopoly and disorderly expansion of platform enterprises intensify basic contradictions. The operation laws of the platform economy have laid the foundation for the improvement of China’s macroeconomic governance. The state needs to regulate the capital logic of China’s platform enterprises and guide the healthy and orderly development of the platform economy.

Badiou’s Philosophy of Event and the Problem of China

Liu Xin

Alain Badiou and Chinese theory are a conversational relationship of the two-way travel, and the philosophy of event is the theory of his encounters with Chinese subjects such as Mao Zedong, He Lin, Zhang Shiying, Ai Qing and others. Through the rediscovery by Zhang Shiying, Badiou smoothly divides the Chinese study of Hegelian dialectics into two: He Lin’s conservative “Hegel,” a Hegel who merges together humanism, statism, and mysticism; and Zhang Shiying’s revolutionary “Hegel,” a Hegel whose idealism and dialectical materialism that form a unity of opposition. Zhang Shiying’s interpretation of Hegel’s “reasonable core” has become a kind of assistance, participating in Badiou’s philosophy of event. Badiou believes that the Hegelian study of Chinese Marxism linked the dialectics of Hegel, Marx, Engels, Lenin and Mao Zedong, and became the constant driving force for the French Revolution. The event of literature has a place in Badiou’s philosophy of event, and the Chinese revolution and its singers are included in his sequence of “events,” and Chinese left-wing literature, as a part of world literature, inevitably became part of the totality of events. In the combined force of these theoretical works, the philosophy of event as a global theoretical event has become the contemporary development of neo-Marxism. But when Badiou incorporated China into the system of event, difference or misreading had already occurred. When we introduce it back to China and appropriate it as a kind of hermeneutics, we should also know its limits.