Monument and Warning: Socialism in the 20th Century

Author: Yu Hongjun
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Publishing Date: 2002-10-01
Features: 2000 was the last year of the 20th century. As human society was about to enter a new century and millennium, General Secretary Jiang Zemin of the Communist Party of China, with a panoramic view and a comprehensive grasp of the situation, put forward four major theoretical issues that needed in-depth study and exploration to the entire Party at the Central Symposium on Ideological and Political Work. These issues were: how to understand the historical process of socialist development, how to understand the historical process of capitalist development, how to understand the impact of China's socialist reform practice on people's thinking, and how to understand the impact of the current international environment and international political struggles. After the "Four Hows" were proposed, China's theoretical circles immediately became active, with experts and scholars from various fields studying and answering these questions from different disciplines and perspectives. Research results with substantial materials, profound thoughts, and insightful views were published one after another. Dedicated to the readers in anticipation of the 16th National Congress of the Party—the first congress of the new century—this treatise is more than a collection of the author's research achievements on world socialist issues. It is rather a compilation of reflections on learning the spirit of General Secretary Jiang's instructions and drawing on the research results of other theoretical workers.