The Great Contribution of the CPC to the World Socialist Movement over the Past Hundred Years

ABSTRACT

Since its founding, the Communist Party of China (CPC) has placed striving for socialism and communism at the core of its program. The CPC is a firm believer in and practitioner of Marxism and scientific socialism, an active promoter of the world socialist movement and the international communist movement, and also a leader of and major contributor to the innovative development of Marxism and world socialism in the twenty-first century. Employing historical analysis, this article analyzes the different stages of the party’s 100-year history, and demonstrates that the Chinese revolution led by the party has been a key element in the progress of the international communist movement. The party has created, upheld and developed socialism with Chinese characteristics, promoting reform and opening-up and pursuing the modernization of socialism with Chinese characteristics. In this way, the party has played a major role in promoting the development of world socialism, accumulating important experience for socialists internationally. As humanity enters a new era in the twenty-first century, socialism with Chinese characteristics represents a major contribution made by the CPC to the world socialist movement.

KEYWORDS:

• Communist Party of China
• world socialism
• international communist movement
• Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era

Acknowledgements

This article is translated from Chinese by Associate Professor Shuqing Li at the Yantai Research Institute, China Agricultural University.

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Notes

1 See http://www.qstheory.cn/wp/2019-10/29/c_1125164854.htm.

2 See http://www.qstheory.cn/zhuanqu/bkjx/2019-04/12/c_1124358139.htm.

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Hui Jiang

Hui Jiang is Vice-President of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), and Director of both the Institute of Contemporary China Studies and the Academy of Marxism at CASS. His research focuses on Marxist theory, scientific socialism, the international communist movement and contemporary world socialism. His publications include Reform of the Communist Parties in the European Developed Countries (in Chinese), A Study of the Contemporary Western Working Class (in Chinese), Socialist Thought in the Western World (in Chinese), New Characteristics of World Socialism in the Twenty-First Century (in Chinese), Class Structure and the “Third Way” (in Chinese), and The Transformation of European Social Democracy (in Chinese).