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Hold High the Great Banner of “People First” Tao Wenzhao 2021, 55 (8):  5-13.  Abstract ( )   PDF (6462KB) ( )   The history of the Communist Party of China (CPC) has shown that the country is its people, and the people are the country; as the CPC has fought to establish and consolidate its leadership over the country, it has been fighting to earn and keep the people's support. Marxism is a theory of the people. The CPC has been constantly deepening its understanding of the role of the people in its great practice, and achieved in the new era the theoretical sublimation by making people first. To hold high the great banner of“people first”, it is necessary to reach a precise theoretical understanding of its nature and connotations, and implement in practice the policies and requirements about making people first. Related Articles | Metrics

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Marx's Theory of Banking and Its Practical Value Wang Guogang 2021, 55 (8):  14.  Abstract ( )   PDF (10826KB) ( )   Marx's banking theory is an important part of the Marxist economics. As argued by Marx, the formation of the banking system is premised upon the following five socioeconomic conditions: the transformation of interestbearing capital to moneydealing capital, the full development of the credit mechanism based on the commercial credit, the sufficient presence of the monetary demand, the multiple deposit channels for and increasing amount of the money flow, and the adequate development of bookkeeping. Marx presented a systematic elaboration of the operation mechanism of the banking system from three perspectives: the emergence of the bank credit, the functioning of the credit money, and the creation mechanism of the credit money. Marx fully recognized the positive role of the bank credit mechanism, but also revealed its negative effects in the capitalist mode of production. Marx's banking theory is of important guiding significance for China in the process of deepening the financial supplyside structural reform. Specifically, China needs to further improve its financial statistics and make up for the inadequacy in the financial data. It is also necessary to facilitate the development of the commercial credit and consolidate the foundation of the bank credit. And China should also optimize the payment mechanism to prevent systematic financial risks. Related Articles | Metrics

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Epicurus and the Modern Enlightenment Tradition Lu Kejian 2021, 55 (8):  29-40.  Abstract ( )   PDF (9010KB) ( )   Epicurus is closely related to the modern Enlightenment tradition. Epicurus in England and  Epicurus in the Enlightenment systematically outline the influence of Epicurus in the European Enlightenment thoughts during the 16th-18th centuries. The former book reveals the history of how Epicurus was received in the English world and the resultant effects; while the latter examines by country Epicureanism in the Enlightenment around the 18th century. In a sense, Hobbes's critique of Aristotle's political thoughts represents an inheritance of the tradition of Epicurus. Via the medium of Epicurus, we can get a better understanding of the intellectual relations between Marx and the modern Enlightenment tradition during the period of Marx's Doctoral Dissertation, and the Enlightenment factor in the early development of Marx's political philosophy. Related Articles | Metrics

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An Examination of “Historical Generativism” and “Historical Determinism” Bian Weiwei, Zhang Wenxi 2021, 55 (8):  41-49.  Abstract ( )   PDF (6647KB) ( )   Both the logic of Hegel's philosophy of history and the logic of Marx's historical materialism start from a presumption of “history”. Different opinions of the “law of history” lead to different conceptions of the “history”. Historical materialism holds that history is nothing but the activity of man pursuing his aims. This indicates that its “ontology of history” is not about the “law of reason” in the sense of Hegel's philosophy of history, but is about the “law of practice”. Historical generativism is a conception of history based on historical materialism as understood with the materialist dialectical thinking. It respresents an understanding of Marx's materialist dialectical thinking that history is nothing but the activity of man pursuing his aims. In contrast, historical determinism is a conception of history in the sense of materialism as understood with the “thinking of understanding”, showing a transcendence of Hegel's idealistic dialectics that history is a rational process. The limit of historical determinism lies in that it obscures the meaning of the dialectical relations between social being and social consciousness. However, the rationality of historical generativism lies in that it accurately defines the nature of history as the philosophical representation of the “law of the practical history”, instead of trying to propose an abstract “general philosophy of history” concerning the sociohistorical development. Related Articles | Metrics

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Transformations of the Rural Governance in the New Era: Internal Mechanisms and Innovation Directions Lu Yilong, Menggendalai 2021, 55 (8):  50-59.  Abstract ( )   PDF (7282KB) ( )   There are various understandings and definitions of the concept of governance, but the issues at the center are about development and order. For the rural governance, the rural development and rural order construction are two important tasks. In the new era, the rural governance has undergone major transformations in development goals, key tasks, development modes and order governance mechanisms. The strategic target of poverty alleviation has been fulfilled, and the new task of rural vitalization has been launched. The rural governance transformations are realized through mechanisms such as pressures from conflicts, institutional change, and technological facilitation. It is necessary to follow reasonable and correct directions when promoting rural governance innovations in the new development stage. As far as the rural development is concerned, we should innovate systems and mechanisms under the guidance of the new development philosophy. In terms of the rural order governance, it is necessary to march toward the integration of selfgovernance, the rule of law, and the rule of virtue to conduct innovations in the practice of grassroots governance and unceasingly improve the rural governance. Related Articles | Metrics

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The Logic of New Modernity in the Chinese Road Tang Aijun 2021, 55 (8):  60-67.  Abstract ( )   PDF (6091KB) ( )   Concepts such as classical modernity, capital modernity, multiple modernity and reflexive modernity cannot effectively explain the Chinese road, which is a road of new modernity different from previous modernization modes. First, the Chinese road transcends the logic of capital modernity and exhibits the “logic of the socialist system”. Second, the Chinese road transcends the traditional socialist logic and absorbs the “logic of the market economy”. Third, the Chinese road transcends the “logic of serial development” in the West, and shows a “logic of parallel development” characterized by the newtype industrialization. Related Articles | Metrics

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The Data Factor's Dual Attribute and Its Interaction Effects Guan Xingmiao, Qin Xingfang 2021, 55 (8):  68-76.  Abstract ( )   PDF (5925KB) ( )   Data has become a factor of production. This occurs when history enters the era of big data, in which technologies such as artificial intelligence, cloud computing, and blockchain are used to collect, mine and process data. Data is a special product of labor, a derivative of other production factors. The data factor has a dual attribute: being physical or technical, and meanwhile being social. The social dimension of the data factor can not only materialize the technical dimension but also amplify it, ie. it has the multiplication effect on the allocation efficiency of other production factors. The social dimension is brought out via the medium of the technical dimension. Viewed purely from a technical perspective, this medium is strongly adhesive; after being bonded with other factors of production, it will only lead to physical reaction and not change the nature of other factors. However, once the two dimensions interact with each other, especially when combined with capital, the most adhesive factor in the market economy, a series of new social relations will then be produced based on this medium. Significant adjustments in social relations may ensue, involving both positive and negative externalities. Therefore, to get a scientific understanding of the dual attribute and its interaction effects of the data factor, it is necessary to take the following steps. One the one hand, we should promote institutional designs that amplify positive externalities, with a focus on facilitating public data sharing and improving commercial data development. On the other hand, we need to strengthen institutional arrangements that prevent and control negative externalities by emphasizing data supervision based on data types and levels as well as the rule of law. Related Articles | Metrics

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The Layered Structure of Political Identity: Also on the Political Identity Construction under New Circumstances Wang Weinan 2021, 55 (8):  77-86.  Abstract ( )   PDF (7507KB) ( )   Identity involves two dimensions,ie. collective identity and values, answering the question of “who I am” and that of “what I like and dislike”,respectively.Political identity has strong political implications,consisting of national identity, ethnic identity, institutional identity, government identity, political party identity, social identity, among other things. All these elements constitute the pedigree of political identity, which is centered on national identity, and takes on a layered structure based on different intensities of political implications. Cultural identity diffuses across all the layers of political identity. Under the new circumstances that globalization is suffering major setbacks, there are both new opportunities and new challenges for sovereign states to enhance the public's political identity. Related Articles | Metrics

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A Reexamination of the Capitalist Democracy with the Social Structure of Accumulation Theory: Based on the “Failure of Democracy” in the West Ge Haoyang 2021, 55 (8):  87-96.  Abstract ( )   PDF (7414KB) ( )   The recent years have witnessed in the Western capitalist countries the repeated “failures” of democratic politics which is regarded as institutionally superior. Therefore, we need to reexamine the nature, functions and limits of the capitalist democratic politics. The capitalist democratic politics, despite its historical progressiveness, is fundamentally the best political shell that maintains the capitalist exploitation system. From the perspective of the social structure of accumulation theory, democratic politics is nothing but one of the institutions in a specific social structure serving capital accumulation. Since the implementation of the neoliberal accumulation mode, capital, in an effort to recover its profits, has controlled national policies by means of democratic politics, resulting in its continuously weakened functions. This explains the various types of political chaos in the Western countries in recent years. Such chaos shows the predicament of the neoliberal accumulation mode in the political domain following its failure in the economic field. The future evolution of the capitalist democratic politics depends on the specific form of a new social structure of accumulation. Related Articles | Metrics

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The Cyber Environment of Ideological and Political Education: An Ecological Perspective Zhang Yu 2021, 55 (8):  97-104.  Abstract ( )   PDF (6095KB) ( )   Examining the cyber environment of ideological and political education with the ecological theories and approaches is of important significance to correctly understand the relations between humans and the cyber environment in ideological and political education, profoundly analyze the internal mechanism of this cyber environment, and continuously promote innovations in the mode and method of ideological and political education in the cyber space. In ideological and political education activities, the connections and interactions between humans and the cyber environment constitute an ecological system. The cyber civilization construction is an important value goal of ideological and political education. The integral environment made up of both the virtual and the reality expands the connotations of ideological and political education. The ecology of cyber communications fosters the subjectobject relations. In the education practice, we can learn from the theory of ecological types and construct ideological and political education models based on different ecologies of different media so as to improve the pertinence and effectiveness of education. Related Articles | Metrics

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Ideological and Political Theories Teaching in Courses of Political Science: The Case of Fudan University Liu Jiping, Su Changhe 2021, 55 (8):  105-112.  Abstract ( )   PDF (6095KB) ( )   deological and political theories teaching in all courses is a new conception of education that integrates the aims of fostering virtues, nurturing talents and ideological and political education into major courses. It advocates that in the teaching of major courses, professional knowledge should be combined with values, the historical outlook, and the view of state to educate the young people, in order to arouse their confidence in the path, theory, system and culture of socialism with Chinese characteristics, and enhance their political and national identity. The discipline of political science in Fudan University is one of China's firstclass discipline construction units. The major of political science (including international politics and public administration) became a demonstrative major in ideological and political theories teaching in all courses in Fudan University in 2017. We present a summary of our experience in exploring the education conceptions, course design, and the way of implementation, which can be inspiring for the ideological and political theories teaching in political science and other disciplines of humanities and social sicences in Chinese colleges and universities. Related Articles | Metrics