중국 시진핑 칼 마르크스 탄생 200주년 회의 참가. President Xi to attend conference to mark Karl Marx's birth

시진핑이 칼 마르크스를 중국 공산당의 '지도 이념'으로 간주하는 이유는

 

 

President Xi to attend conference to mark Karl Marx's birth

 

    2018-05-03 09:14

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President Xi Jinping will attend a conference to mark the 200th anniversary of the birth of Karl Marx, scheduled to be held on Friday morning.

 

Xi, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, will deliver a speech at the conference to be held in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing.

 

The event will be live broadcast by China Central Television (CCTV), China National Radio (CNR), China Radio International (CRI), and on key news websites and apps run by the People's Daily, Xinhua News Agency and CCTV, as well as www.china.com.cn.

 

 

Work of Marx, Engels one of the greatest works of history, British experts say

    0 2018-02-26 10:50

 

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The Communist Manifesto, written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels 170 years ago, has influenced millions of people and will continue to give food for thought for centuries to come, according to experts interviewed by Xinhua.

 

Published in 1848, "the Communist Manifesto was a fantastic piece of writing," said former seafarer turned academic Tony Lane.

 

Lane, emeritus professor of Cardiff University and one-time lecturer in the university's School of Social Sciences, first read the manifesto at the age of 27, long before he embarked on the road to academia.

 

"It really was a very powerful piece of writing. It was written as a way of mobilizing people," he said, describing the manifesto as a sketch of Marx's ideas.

 

Lane said far more people, millions over the years, have been influenced by reading that book which has hardly ever been out of print.

 

"For the future, I am sure there will be people reading and studying the Communist Manifesto for many years to come. I cannot imagine anybody reading the manifesto who will not be affected in some ways by what it says when they read the manifesto today... It is a document that makes some very serious points," the expert added.

 

Lane said that when it was written there was no such thing in Britain as the labor movement.

 

"We had to wait another 50 years for that to come along. In that respect the manifesto was ahead of its time, produced in the middle of the 19th century," he said.

 

"Is it relevant today? I doubt that as a great work it will ever be forgotten, and will be studied by thoughtful readers. I am sure they will find things in it that are still relevant," added Lane.

 

Alex McFadden, who was former president of the regional Trades Union Congress representing thousands of workers in northern England, is now a political officer with the local government trade union, Unison.

 

"When the Communist Manifesto was written, the vast majority of workers were illiterate and had little experience of collective struggle, and trade unions were almost a secret," McFadden told Xinhua in an interview.

 

He said the conditions of working class, written by Engels, was a massive influence at the time. "The Industrial Revolution threw up examples of Capitalist exploitation of the workers, examples which were used by Marx and Engels."

 

"The people most alienated from the means of Capitalist Production were the workers, the very people that created the industrial wealth," McFadden added.

 

These were the first ever examples to be used by philosophers, said McFadden. "So yes. Marx and Engels were ahead of their time."

 

"Marx and Engels opened the eyes and minds of workers and socialist writers everywhere," he said. "It is also interesting to see how the way the Communist Party in China adopts the manifesto, (since) in my view the Chinese are the masters."

 

McFadden said so many trade unionists studied the Communist Manifesto and still do today, which makes it just as relevant in 2018.

 

"Yes, the Communist Manifesto is as relevant today as it was in 1848," he said.

 

 

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A free trader to world, China’s Xi champions Marx at home

BY CHRISTOPHER BODEEN

 

Published 6:51 AM GMT-5, May 5, 2018

 

 

 

BEIJING (AP) — To the world, China’s President Xi Jinping presents himself as a champion of free markets. At home, he’s leading a campaign to promote the works of communist philosopher Karl Marx, who 150 years ago famously warned of the dangers of global capitalism.

 

“Marx was Correct,” declared a slickly produced TV special that’s part of a state media campaign rolled out by Xi’s administration this week seeking to popularize Marx among younger Chinese raised in an era of market-style economic reform. The campaign featured a catchy theme song, dramatic readings, and an article titled “Say Hi to Marx” showing an illustration of the white-bearded Marx making a trendy V-for-victory sign.

 

“Today, we commemorate Marx in order to pay tribute to the greatest thinker in the history of mankind and also to declare our firm belief in the scientific truth of Marxism,” Xi said in a speech Friday prominently displayed across state media platforms.

 

It’s all about cementing the power of Xi and the ruling Communist Party and combating liberal Western democratic concepts thought to threaten its rule, using a legacy dating way past the 1949 Chinese revolution, analysts say.

 

The madness for Marx dovetails with a drive to “Sinicize” culture, religion and ideology by instilling social control through the teachings of the ancient philosopher Confucius, said Perry Link, an American expert on Chinese literature and politics.

 

“Neither embrace has anything to do with intellectual content and everything to do with bolstering political power today,” Link wrote in an email.

 

The Marx media blitz is mainly for domestic consumption. On the global stage, Xi is striving to cast his country as a modern champion of free trade. Last year, he became the first Chinese president to attend the World Economic Forum, a glitzy gathering of champagne-sipping globalists at a Swiss Alpine resort in Davos, where he made a high-profile speech advocating free markets.

 

Xi’s goal is to portray China as a responsible economic power while showing the world and domestic critics that Beijing will persist in pursuing its own path of Chinese-style Marxism, said Willy Lam, an expert on Chinese politics at the Chinese University in Hong Kong.

 

“He’s striking a defiant pose to the West and opponents at home that China will not buckle under,” Lam said.

 

The Marxism mantra faces an uphill battle, though, given the widening gulf between the communist leadership and Chinese youth who tend to be enamored with celebrity gossip and irreverent social satire that goes viral across social media before it is censored.

 

“It’s extremely hard to push Marxism in modern China especially in this internet era. What it presents is severely unrealistic,” said Zhang Lifan, a Beijing-based independent political analyst.

 

“Even inside China, I believe most party members don’t understand or believe in Marxism anymore,” Zhang said. “Instead, they just use it as a tool for promotion.”

 

Xi’s zeal for Marxist thought may partly reflect his own experience. Like millions of urban youths of his generation, as a teenager he was “sent-down” to the countryside to do manual labor instead of going to school during the bloody turmoil of the ultra-leftist 1964-76 Cultural Revolution.

 

“Xi is limited to his knowledge and education in the past, so this is what he knows,” said Zhang. “The younger generations who are very independent are totally different from them.”

 

The new campaign is timed to coincide with the bicentennial of Marx’s birth and the 170th anniversary of the publication of the “Communist Manifesto,” which along with “Das Kapital” helped shape much modern thought about labor, social classes and economic and political systems.

 

Those works, some produced in collaboration with Friedrich Engels, are the bedrock of communism. But his thought and image have been eclipsed over three decades of rapid industrialization and social change.

 

For the economy, China’s communist leaders no longer advocate total state control or class struggle. On the political front, the party has been tightening its iron grip on power, swiftly crushing real and perceived threats.

 

Xi has gone even further to clinch his status as the most powerful Chinese leader since Mao Zedong, sidelining or prosecuting rivals and having his own “thought” written into the party constitution.

 

In March, the rubber-stamp legislature removed presidential term limits from the Chinese constitution, enabling him to remain head of state indefinitely.

 

All that, plus the vigorous Marx and Confucius campaigns, point not to strength but to insecurity, Link said.

 

“I’m not sure Xi’s personal political position is as secure as it appears,” Link said. “Purging his rivals motivates his rivals; and popular support would quickly go south if something bad, like an economic downturn, suddenly appeared.”

 

The party’s jitters are apparent in its crusade against universal values, independent legal activists and liberal democratic thought, its crackdowns on what the authorities deem unhealthy, such as an online forum for discussing LGBT issues to the satirical retooling of the British cartoon character Peppa Pig.

 

Instead, party ideologues say, why not Marx as a healthy alternative?

 

State broadcaster CCTV’s “Marx was Correct” special featured stylish animation, a studio audience of college students and a question and answer session.

 

Each episode concluded with a soft-rock ode to Marx, “Your Name, Our Strength,” accompanied by video depicting China’s rise from the time of Marx’s birth to recent accomplishments such as bullet trains and the Chinese navy’s first aircraft carrier.

 

Marxism “should be consolidated as the guiding ideology and promoted in campuses, classrooms, and among students,” Xi said during a visit to the School of Marxism at prestigious Peking University, considered one of the cradles of Chinese communism, which recently added a research institute on Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism With Chinese Characteristics for a New Era.

 

 

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A free trader to world, China's Xi champions Marx at home