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Contemporary Chinese Marxism: Social visions and philosophy of education – An EPAT collective project

When I spoke to my colleague and very good friend of many years Wang Chengbing I tried to express the need for the West to understand Chinese Marxism, partly because it is the philosophy of a certain Chinese modernity but also because it is feared in the West and doesn’t get any news time. There is a need for a discussion in English about its characteristics and its promise, and its links with Western Marxism. I wanted us to promote a dialogue and to begin by asking main Chinese scholars to provide their different accounts. As much as US contemporary capitalism since the 1960s was guided and shaped by neoliberalism –in particular the Chicago School’s and Becker’s human capital theory as well as Romer’s new growth theory— China’s trajectory in the Asian Century is undoubtedly bound up in the discourse of Chinese Marxism. We in the West need to understand that Marxism is a bridge in political economy. In terms of a master global discourse this represents a shift in political economy away from mathematical modelling of formal economics with the development of the fourth generation Chicago school to other less formal humanities: the philosophy of history and the history of philosophy. Marxism originated in the West as a form of historical materialism in the work of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels and developed into many different schools without an existing ruling orthodoxy. It strongly influenced the disciplines especially in the humanities and social sciences and provided a view of history that depicted four major stages of history related to a change in the mode of production, from the primitive communism of tribal cultures, through slavery and feudalism to the industrial capitalism of Marx’s own day. Beyond that stage has been a matter for fierce disagreement. One thing is clear, what comes after industrial capitalism in the material history of the global future of humanity will be significantly influenced by Chinese Marxism and Chinese economy as it enters the Asian Century as a vital and defining force. Chinese Marxism as philosophy and ideology plays an important role in formulated the questions of the rebirth of the nation, national self-identification, and national self-rejuvenation. Clearly, philosophy, history, and political economy have a significant place in the discourse