No. 3, 2020

CONTENTS

Successful Practice and Innovation-Driven Development of the Path to Common Prosperity in the New Era： The Great Significance of Xi Jinping’s Expositions on Poverty Alleviation    Wan Jianwu（1）

Integrating Regularized Poverty Alleviation from the Perspective of Smallholder Farmers and the Implementation of the Rural Revitalization Strategy    Wu Chongqing（8）

Exploring the Value of Cultivating “Lucid Waters and Lush Mountains” and the Form of Its Realization    Xu Xianglin（16）

Considerations on the Presentation of the Chinese Translation of The German Ideology    Chai Fangguo（24）

Putting the People First： The Value Orientation for Socialist Ecological Civilization    Zhang Yunfei（68）

Theodor W. Adorno， or Critical Theory and Practice of the Frankfurt School：An Interview with Martin Jay    Zhao Yong（90）

Distinguishing between Marxism and Left Radicalism   Zou Shipeng（99）

Althusser’s Practice of Philosophy： Introduction to Althusser’s How to Be a Marxist in Philosophy    Geoffroy Michael Ghosgarian（131）

Xi Jinping’s Strategic Thinking on the Human Community with a Shared Future    Xu Xianchun（141）

Socialism and Peace： A Study in the Context of European History    Jean-Numa Ducange（162）

The Limits and Problems of the Western Doctrine That “Human Rights Are Superior Than Sovereignty”    Ai Silin & Qu Weijie（169）

MAIN ABSTRACTS

Successful Practice and Innovation-Driven Development of the Path to Common Prosperity in the New Era:The Great Significance of Xi Jinping’s Expositions on Poverty Alleviation

Wan Jianwu

Abstract: The fight against poverty is a major initiative to promote the sharing of the fruits of reform and development among all people and to achieve common prosperity; it is an important symbol of the superiority of the socialist system with Chinese characteristics; it is the practice and development of Marxism’s important ideas on social construction; and it is China’s major contribution to the cause of human poverty reduction. The path of poverty alleviation and development with Chinese characteristics and the system of poverty alleviation with Chinese characteristics have focused on interpreting the core elements of Xi Jinping’s thesis on poverty alleviation, enriched the Marxist anti-poverty theory and formed the Chinese anti-poverty program. As the strategic planner and commander of the fight against poverty, Xi Jinping is the main promoter of this successful practice and the main contributor to this theoretical innovation. The successful experience and theoretical understanding of winning the war against poverty are important references and inspirations for keeping to the path of common prosperity in the new era.

Exploring the Value of Cultivating “Lucid Waters and Lush Mountains” and the Form of Its Realization

Xu Xianglin

Abstract: The notion that “lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets” has become the guiding thought of ecological civilization in rural China. As public goods, “lucid waters and lush mountains” cannot be put on the market, but the capital that is invested to cultivate them needs to make profit. Marxist economics explains the fundamental principle on capital and profit. The Chinese government should provide fiscal support for organizing farmers into a system of cooperatives featuring “three in one”. A farmers’ cooperative shall be a market entity for nourishing lucid waters and lush mountains, serving as the feasible channel to make it happen.

Integrating Regularized Poverty Alleviation from the Perspective of Smallholder Farmers and the Implementation of the Rural Revitalization Strategy

Wu Chongqing

Abstract: Smallholder family farming is the main mode of operation of Chinese agriculture at present and it will remain so for a considerable period of time to come. Smallholders are not the mainstay of new agricultural operations and have difficulty in carrying out capital-intensive agricultural production, and pure farmers among smallholders tend to impoverish and intersect with poor households. Smallholder farmers, as poor households, share a commonality of lack of labor in the household or lack of employment of the main household labor force. This makes it difficult to carry out labor-intensive agricultural production in the absence of cooperation and policy support. After the completion of the task of poverty eradication in China in 2020, there is a need to treat relatively poor households as a special category of smallholder farmers and to formulate more targeted support policies to promote the re-small farming of smallholder farmers from traditional to modern times, and to integrate regularized poverty alleviation and the implementation of the rural revitalization strategy.

Putting the People First: The Value Orientation for Socialist Ecological Civilization

Zhang Yunfei

Abstract: In accordance with Marxist political and value positions, Xi Jinping’s thinking on ecological civilization establishes putting the people first as the value orientation for socialist ecological civilization, integrating and transcending the value orientation of all green thinking. Satisfying the ecological needs of the people, safeguarding their ecological rights, mobilizing their ecological actions and safeguarding their sharing of the ecological environment are the requirements and manifestations of the value orientation that puts the people first. Ultimately, the promotion of universal development of individuals is the value objective of the initiative to promote socialist ecological civilization. At present, it is necessary to provide institutional guarantees for the realization of the ecological value orientation that puts the people first by modernizing the national governance system and governance capacity in the field of ecology and the environment.

Historical View of Ecological Civilization from the Perspective of Xi Jinping’s Thinking on Ecological Civilization

Huan Qingzhi

Abstract: The notion that “when ecology flourishes, civilization flourishes; when ecology declines, civilization declines” is a fundamental and important assertion in Xi Jinping’s thinking on ecological civilization. In essence, it articulates a “historical view of ecological civilization” that fully recognizes and respects the fundamental role of the natural ecological environment in the survival, continuation and sustainable development of human social civilization. On this basis, the Communist Party of China and the Chinese government have gradually put forward and implemented institutional policies and strategic initiatives that systematically and greatly promote ecological civilization and strive to build a beautiful China. They have thus blazed a path of healthy development to achieve productive development, prosperity, and a sound ecological environment, or a modern development path of ecological civilization.

Xi Jinping’s Strategic Thinking on the Human Community with a Shared Future

Xu Xianchun

Abstract: With a broad global perspective, Xi Jinping has thought deeply about the world’s difficult problems, such as the peace deficit, the trust deficit, the development deficit and the governance deficit, and has answered such questions of the times as “what kind of world should be built and how to build it”, which have a bearing on the survival and development of humankind, and has put forward the idea of building a human community with a shared future with great foresight. This major strategic idea, with its deep historical and cultural heritage and solid practical foundation, has brought together Xi Jinping’s theoretical thinking on a series of major directional, fundamental and overall issues in today’s world, providing a Chinese approach rich in Eastern wisdom for the common prosperity and development of humankind. This major strategy emphasizes the maintenance of world peace and the promotion of common development as the purposes, the establishment of new international relations as the basic path, international security as the basis, exchanges and mutual learning between civilizations as the link, and the Belt and Road Initiative as the important practical platform. It stresses the need to be determined to promote economic globalization, actively participate in the transformation of the global governance system, and strive to build a world that enjoys lasting peace, universal security, and common prosperity and that is open, inclusive, clean and beautiful.

Mao Zedong’s Thinking on World Peace and Its Historical Influence

Li Zhen

Abstract: Mao Zedong was the main founder of the Communist Party of China’s theory of world peace. Applying the basic tenets of Marxism, he made a well-founded analysis of the international situation since the end of the Second World War, proposed two different levels of the concepts of “permanent peace” and “lasting peace” and made the basic judgment that “a new war can be stopped”. From this point of view, Mao Zedong set out the basic idea of promoting world peace in terms of building a fair and reasonable international order, being alert to possible threats of war and playing an active role in socialist China. Drawing on historical experience and wisdom from Mao Zedong’s thought and practice is of great historical and practical significance for the appropriate handling of international tensions and conflicts and for the maintenance of world peace when the world today faces profound changes of a kind unseen in a century.

Deng Xiaoping’s Thinking on Peace and Its Significance to the Times

Sang Donghua

Abstract: Deng Xiaoping’s thinking on peace is rich in content. On how to understand the world, he made the new assertion that “peace and development are the two major issues in the world today”; on how to understand China’s relations with the world, he stressed on the one hand the importance of a peaceful international environment for China’s modernization and on the other hand the role of China as a staunch force for maintaining world peace; on how to strive for and maintain world peace, he resolutely opposed hegemony, advocated the establishment of a peaceful, stable, just and reasonable new international political and economic order, raised the issue of development to the level of all humankind and proposed that development should be used to promote peace. Deng Xiaoping’s thinking on peace, with its distinctive Chinese characteristics, broad vision of the world and broad human sentiments, is of great practical significance.

Exploration and Innovation: Building Social Integrity with Chinese Characteristics

Wang Shuqin

Abstract: Addressing the lack of integrity and its governance is an important social governance task that any country in social transition must face and solve in the process of modernization. Although the failure of integrity is a social pain that is difficult to avoid in countries in transition, the degree of harm and the duration of the social pain of the lack of integrity are closely related to the way and strength of social integrity governance in each country. To this end, many countries have paid great attention to building social integrity in the process of modernization. Around the world, the models or paths for developing social integrity in various countries have both commonalities and individualities. In developing social integrity, China has integrated taking its national conditions into consideration and coming in line with the world. Through theoretical and practical exploration, China has not only creatively proposed the concept of “social credit system”, which is different from the “credit systems” of Western countries, but also gradually formed the model of the integrity culture and social credit system being developed together and mutually reinforcing. This is a breakthrough in the theory and practice of social integrity development in the world and has contributed Chinese wisdom and experience to social integrity development in underdeveloped market economies.