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Marx's theory still shines with truth: Xi
Source: Xinhua| 2018-05-04 16:53:17|Editor: Lifang
BEIJING, May 4 (Xinhua) -- Two centuries on, despite huge and profound changes in human society, the name of Karl Marx is still respected all over the world and his theory still shines with the brilliant light of truth, Chinese President Xi Jinping said Friday.
Xi, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, made the remarks at a grand gathering in Beijing to celebrate the 200th anniversary of Marx's birth.
Xi said Marx is the "teacher of revolution for the proletariat and working people all over the world, the main founder of Marxism, creator of Marxist parties, a pathfinder for international communism and the greatest thinker of modern times."
"Today, we hold this grand gathering with great veneration to mark the 200th anniversary of Marx's birth, to remember his great character and historic deeds and to review his noble spirit and brilliant thoughts," Xi said at the event.
With noble ideals and no fear of difficulty or adversity, throughout his life, Marx devoted himself to perseveringly striving for the liberation of humanity, scaling the peak of thought in his pursuit of truth, and the unremitting fight to overturn the old world and establish a new one, according to Xi.
Marx is not only a great figure who bore the weight of the world, but also an ordinary person with passion for life, who was sincere and true to friendship, Xi said.
The most valuable and influential spiritual asset that Marx left us is the scientific theory named after him -- Marxism. Like a spectacular sunrise, the theory illuminated the path of humanity's exploration of the law of history, and humanity's search for their own liberation, Xi said.
"The thought and theory of Marx are of his times and go beyond his times," Xi said. "They are the essence of the spirit of that times and the essence of the spirit of all humanity."
Xi said Marxism is a scientific theory that reveals the rule of human society development in a creative manner.
Having developed the materialist conception of history and surplus value theory, Marx showed how humanity would leap from the realm of necessity to the realm of freedom and the road for the people to realize freedom and liberation, Xi said.
Marxism, the first ideology for the liberation of the people themselves, is a theory of the people.
"Marxism, for the first time, explored the path for humanity's freedom and liberation from the stance of the people, and pointed out the direction, with scientific theory, toward an ideal society with no oppression or exploitation, where every person would enjoy equality and freedom," Xi said.
Stressing that practicality is a prominent characteristic of Marxism that makes it different from other theories, Xi said Marxism is a theory of practices that directs the people to change the world.
It is an open theory that is constantly developing and always stands at the frontier of the times, Xi said. "That is why it is always able to keep young, explore the new issues in the development of times and respond to the new challenges for human society."
The general secretary said that over the 170 years since the publication of The Communist Manifesto, Marxism had been spread around the world, unrivaled in the history of human ideology in terms of the breadth and depth of its influence.
After the end of the World War II, a large number of socialist countries were established, Xi said, stressing that the founding of the People's Republic of China, especially, has greatly increased the socialist strength in the world.
"There might be setbacks in the development of socialism in the world, but the overall trend for human society development has never changed, and it will never change," Xi said.
"Marxism has not only profoundly changed the world, but also China," Xi said.
The reverberations of the October Revolution in Russia brought Marxism-Leninism to China, pointing out the direction forward, offering a brand new choice for the Chinese people in their struggle to survive, and setting the scene for the birth of the CPC.
Since the CPC's birth, it has combined the fundamental principles of Marxism with the reality of Chinese revolution and construction, transforming the Chinese nation from "the sick man of East Asia" to one who has stood up, by uniting and leading the people through long-term struggle.
"This tremendous transformation serves as cast iron proof that only through socialism can we save China," Xi said.
Since reform and opening up, the CPC has combined the fundamental principles of Marxism with the reality of China's reform and opening up, and the nation who stood up has grown rich.
"This tremendous transformation serves as cast iron proof that only through socialism with Chinese characteristics can we develop China," Xi said.
In the new era, the CPC again combined the fundamental principles of Marxism with the reality of China in this new era, uniting and leading the people in "undertaking the great struggle, building the great project, advancing the great cause and realizing the great dream."
The Chinese nation has come to embrace a tremendous transformation, as the one who has grown rich now is becoming strong.
"This tremendous transformation serves as cast iron proof that only by adhering to and developing socialism with Chinese characteristics can we realize national rejuvenation," Xi said.
"It is perfectly right for history and the people to choose Marxism, as well as for the CPC to write Marxism on its own flag, to adhere to the principle of combining the fundamental principles of Marxism with China's reality, and continuously adapt Marxism to the Chinese context and the times."
The quicker you go to a higher bracket.
Yes,yes it does.
He can’t possibly be hinting that the workers are in charge of all those chinese mega companies.
Marx was simply hired by elites to construct a new form of tyranny with a different name to exploit the masses. The reality is hanging a new name on tyranny doesn’t change the fact that rule by monarchs, socialist, dictators, communists, and gangs are everyone, crimes against humanity. They have murdered millions of innocent people and yet their thirst for power, property, and blood is never satisfied. The psychopaths that rise to the top of these criminal empires simply require execution.
That is, of course, a load of bull. Marx did the world a favor, when he assumed room temperature. Now, if we could get a few million more commie bastards to do the same, we would all be better off.
I think it really IS true, the only good communist, is a dead 💀 one. 👍
The premise of the system is correct.
Universe operates according to a set of deductive rules, which can be neatly managed.
Neither of them turned out to be true as time progresses. Science found out that the premise and the dynamic process of nature and human society are completely different from what they believed. Math, physics, and even computer science have shown that his notion of universe according to a deductive reasoning based on discrete set of rules is not true.
Anyway, below this seemingly logical facade, are scientifically unverified dogmas which appeal more to emotion than logic, something people can cling to with blind faith.
Xi said Marxism is a scientific theory that reveals the rule of human society development in a creative manner.
It is scientific?
The word theory says one thing but the headlines states, it is truth.
In a creative manner?
One has to read this slowly............................
There’s a group of Marx-like characters that start arriving on scene around 1800, and by 1900...the system has more or less failed on the experiments (most all conducted at ‘farms’ in the US). There’s a great book by Christopher Jennings....”Paradise Now”, which details various utopian socialism experiments, and how they all failed. I’d strongly recommend to people.
>>Marx showed how humanity would leap from the realm of necessity to the realm of freedom and the road for the people to realize freedom and liberation
So, why do they work their people like slaves in factories that make consumer goods for capitalists to enjoy?
I think the official statistic some years back was around 350,000,000 living the high life or US middle class equivalent. But that’s just a drop in the bucket population-wise in China.
Did you know anything about the laws governing rural born Chinese going to the city for work?
I had read somewhere that they have almost no rights in the city; that on leaving a job they must leave the city unless they find other work, and so on.
If you could fill in, it would be interesting as most seem to think in China there is no difference between rural and city born.
Let me tell you a story about China's "official statistics".When I was in Hong Kong a couple of years ago I tried to google "Tienanmen Square" (yes,I checked my spelling).In Hong Kong the only google I could get was country code ".cn"...I couldn't get ".com".Note that ".cn" means China just as ".ca" means Canada.
Well,I got a number of hits on ".cn" every one of which featured beautiful pictures of a serene and majestic square and not a *single* mention of June 1989.
1) the existence of the dialectic process
2) metaphysical materialism
3) its abstract conceptual framework
4) its absolute labor theory of value
5) its theory of prices
6) its theory of profit (surplus value)
7) its iron law of wages
8) doctrine of progressive impoverishment.
When the absurdities of the exploitation theory are fully understood, it will be clear that never before in all of human history has a greater bunch of pompous ignoramuses with pretensions to knowledge behaved more destructively and self-destructively - made themselves more a spectacle of downright fools meriting the utter contempt of all mankind - than have the marxist intellectuals of the last four or five generations. Their lack of genuine knowledge will be seen to be surpassed only by their lack of genuine intellect.
Actually the 350,000,000 was a US stat. Where that came from I have no idea.
You mean that guy?
The only reason China is not starving today is because they have taken on capitalism which they have found very successful. So if it weren't for the U.S. they would now have nothing but misery.
I wonder when China will erect a statue to American capitalism?
He knows bettter, but he has a billion peasants he cannot afford to let believe otherwise.
Arrogant Chinese basing their whole culture on a European philosopher.
HA!
“...The name of Karl Marx is still respected all over the world and his theory still shines ...”
Yeah, I’m sure the 200+ million murdered souls that were victims of his “theory” think so too.
Without Marx and Engels, you’d never have had Adolf Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot, Che, Mao, Ceacesucu, and any other host of commie pieces of sh*t.
And besides - somebody needs to tell all these Chinese commies that by worshipping Marx, it’s “cultural appropriation” - he was a white guy.
Marxism might actually work... but there are humans involved.
Here’s a scary thought... If/When the machines take over, maybe Marxism will be programmed and those who don’t agree will be Pogromed
What’s a hundred million dead, anyway? Xi might say, “A good start”.
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