Political Economy - The Capitalist Section

Author: Yu Guangyuan
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Publish Date: 2001-05-10
Features: Yu Guangyuan was born in July 1915 in Shanghai. He participated in the December 9th Movement in 1935. In 1936, he graduated from the Physics Department of Tsinghua University. In early 1937, before the War of Resistance against Japan, he joined the Communist Party of China. In 1955, he was elected as a member of the Academic Division of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Before the 12th National Congress of the Communist Party of China in 1982, he served as the Vice President of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and the Deputy Chairman of the National Science and Technology Commission. That year, he retired from his leading positions. At the 12th and 13th National Congresses of the Party, he was elected as a member of the Central Advisory Commission. Since the 1980s, he has been dedicated to interdisciplinary research in philosophy and social sciences, as well as organizational activities to promote their development. He has also actively participated in various social activities, serving as the president or chairman of organizations such as the Chinese Society for the Study of Dialectical Materialism, the Chinese Society for the Study of Socialist Political Economy, the Chinese Society for the Study of Productive Forces Economics, the Chinese Society for the Study of Land Economics, the Chinese Society for the Study of Techno-Economics, the Chinese Society for the Study of Marxism and Mao Zedong Thought, and the Chinese Pacific Society. He has published numerous academic works and political commentaries. Representative works include: Lectures and Notes on Philosophy, A Philosophy School Is Rising in China, Explorations in Socialist Political Economy (Volumes 1-7), The Economy of China's Primary Stage of Socialism, Strategies for Economic and Social Development, Notes on the Main Body of a Socialist Market Economy, The Historical Turning Point I Personally Experienced, Asia and the Civilization of Asia, Commentaries on the So-Called Human Body's Special Functions, We Must Fight Pseudoscience for at Least Another Century, and My Educational Thoughts (collections or monographs). Since 1993, he has begun publishing essays and prose, including Notes from a Decade of Old Age, Random Thoughts, Me During the Cultural Revolution, Books of Friends and Friends, and Pomegranate Flowers Outside the Window. His interests are very broad, and he is concerned with countless issues in social life. He is diligent in mind, hand, and foot. Despite his advanced age, he still "roams the world in a wheelchair." Recently, he has demanded to keep up with modernization and has tried to engage with the internet.