The international community positively evaluated the speech made by the supreme leader at the commemoration of Marx’s congress.
At the conference commemorating the bicentennial of Marx’s birth, General Secretary of the Supreme Leader delivered an important speech, spoke highly of the epoch-making significance of Marxism in human history, and profoundly summarized the great course and experience of Marxism in China. Foreign experts and scholars interviewed by this reporter believe that Marxism has provided a powerful ideological weapon for China’s revolution, construction and reform, and guided China to embark on the broad road of building a socialist modernization power in an all-round way. China’s adherence to the Supreme Leader’s New Era Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought will keep the bright future of human society vividly displayed on the land of China.
"Marxism still has great vitality in today’s era"
Scientific theory shines the light of truth across time and space; Great thoughts transcend the power of the times to inspire faith. The most valuable and influential spiritual wealth left by Marx is the scientific theory named after him — — Marxism.
"Marxism is the most profound study of capitalism. If you want to analyze the current capitalism, Marxism is an important and intelligent tool." Lamy, former director-general of the WTO, believes.
"Marxism still has great vitality in today’s era." Picchetti, a French economist and author of Capital in the 21st Century, told reporters that in the last 30 years, developed capitalist countries have once again returned to the long-term trend of increasing inequality, especially in the United States. After the outbreak of the international financial crisis in 2008, people began to know Marx again because of his profound analysis and criticism of the capitalist system.
"When the world economy is in great turmoil, the study of Marxism will become active." Vladimir Avtonomov, a professor of economics at the Russian Higher School of Economics, said.
Spain has reappeared the upsurge of Marxist research in recent years. "Everyone is trying to find the answer to today’s development problems from Marxism again." Francisco Siera, a researcher at the Spanish Marxist Research Foundation and a professor at the University of Seville, told reporters that in October this year, the Spanish Marxist Research Foundation will hold an international seminar on the bicentennial of Marx’s birth together with Compton University in Spain, with the aim of encouraging more people to think and solve current problems with Marxist thinking.
Alex Gordon, chairman of the British Marx Memorial Library Foundation, believes that the renewed enthusiasm for Marxist research around the world is "closely related to many practical problems faced by today’s society." He said that nearly 10 years have passed since the international financial crisis, but the impact still exists. Marxism explains capitalism well, explains why the economic crisis happened, and "Marxism reveals the truth".
"The Supreme Leader’s Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought in the New Era is Marxism in contemporary China"
As the latest achievement of Marxism in China, the Supreme Leader’s New Era Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought will surely promote the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation and make scientific socialism glow with great vitality in China in the 21st century.
Ruan Rongguang, a senior consultant of the Vietnam Center for International Relations Development and Strategic Studies, has been paying close attention to China. He believes that the great achievements made by China in the past 40 years of reform and opening up have made the world see that Marxism in China is correct and fruitful.
"It is no accident that China has made great development achievements today. One of the fundamental reasons is that there is a political party armed with scientific theory. This political party is the Communist Party of China (CPC) guided by Marxism." Frank Williams, a former chairman of the Belgian China Association and an expert in Marxist studies, believes that the Communist Party of China (CPC) not only inherited the essence of Marxism, but also developed Marxism and formulated China’s development strategy under the guidance of Marxism. In the new era, the bright future of human society envisioned by Marx and Engels will be vividly displayed in China.
Takao Kamakura, an 84-year-old honorary professor at Saitama University in Japan, is a famous Marxist economist in Japan. He has been studying Das Kapital and has published dozens of books on Marxist economics for more than half a century. In Kamakura’s view, the important reason why China has achieved such great changes is that the Communist Party of China (CPC) combined the basic principles of Marxism with China’s concrete reality and constantly developed and innovated Marxism.
Hiroshi Nishi, a professor in the Department of Economics at Keio University, believes that Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought of the Supreme Leader in the New Era has made original contributions to the development of Marxism, complied with the requirements of China’s times, and is Marxism in contemporary China.
Svitlana Yulikova, director of the Department of Philosophy and Cultural Studies at the Russian orlov State Cultural Institute, believes that Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought of the Supreme Leader in the New Era has injected impetus into the new development of Marxism worldwide.
"There is no doubt that China has become a leader in the global development of Marxism today." Noel Moratilla, a Filipino Marxist scholar, believes that the Supreme Leader’s New Era Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought has opened up a new realm of Marxism, which will make China develop more firmly.
"China Road is affecting and changing the world more and more profoundly."
"One of the disadvantages of capitalism is that pure economic growth is the highest goal of society. Focusing social activities entirely on growth will easily lead to the expansion of inequality. Otherwise, how can people explain that a considerable number of people in the United States, the richest country in the world, still live in poverty and experience hunger and homelessness? " David Fanson Fanster, an associate professor of sociology at Wayne State University in the United States, believes that the Communist Party of China (CPC) proposed to realize all-round development of human beings and all-round progress of society. "The more successful and prosperous China is, the more it can show the world that this is a better plan to move forward."
As a foreign expert, Professor Ek Kaupf, a German expert from the Central Compilation Bureau and a professor from Erfort Normal University in Germany, participated in the compilation of the second edition of The Complete Works of Marx and Engels in Chinese, and just published the book Successful China in April this year, focusing on the significance of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and the 2018 China National Conference to realize the Chinese dream. "1.3 billion people in China are trying to create their own happy life every day." Ek Kaupf said, "For Marx and Engels, the most precious birthday gift is to use their theory and combine the current reality to better lead the people to create great achievements and make the development achievements more fair and benefit all the people."
"Socialism with Chinese characteristics’s great achievements have proved the scientific nature of Marxism, and the Communist Party of China (CPC)’s ruling experience in China has also provided rich materials for the development of contemporary Marxism." Tang Zhimin, director of China ASEAN Research Center of Chia Tai School of Management in Thailand, believes that the Communist Party of China (CPC)’s adherence to the people-centered development thought, continuous promotion of all-round development of people and realization of common prosperity of all people are the inheritance and development of Marxism.
"At present, the focus of the world is shifting from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean. China has embarked on a different development path, which is affecting and changing the world more and more profoundly." Siella stressed that it is necessary for western countries to have more exchanges and dialogues with China and learn from the successful experience of Marxism in China.
(Beijing, Paris, Madrid, London, Hanoi, Brussels, Moscow, Bangkok, Tokyo, Washington, Berlin, Mexico City, May 5th, by reporters Wang Xinping, Xiao Xinxin, Li Yongqun, jiang bo, Xu Liqun, Qiang Wei, Liu Gang, Ren Yan, Zhang Xiaodong, Zhang Zhiwen, Sun Guangyong, Liu Junguo, Hu Zexi and Feng Xueyan.