Marx
Brief introduction
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May 5, 2022, marks the 204th anniversary of Marx's birth.
Marx's full name was Karl Heinrich Marx (5 May 1818 – 14 March 1883) was a great German thinker, political scientist, philosopher, economist, theoretician, historian and sociologist, one of the founders of Marxism, the organizer and leader of the First International, one of the founders of Marxist parties, the spiritual leader of the proletariat, the revolutionary mentor of the proletariat of the proletariat and the working people of the world, and the founder of the international communist movement. His major works include Capital and The Communist Manifesto. His insights in economics laid the foundation for many later economic ideas, and he also founded historical materialism and co-founded Marxist doctrine with Engels.
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In the northern suburbs of London, There is a famous Highgate Cemetery, which houses many British celebrities. There was the philosopher and social evolutionist Herbert Spencer, the physicist and chemist Michael Faraday, the writer George Eliot, and the parents, wife, and brother of the great writer Dickens were also buried here. But they all looked eclipsed in the face of an exile from Germany. The exile was Karl Marx.
On March 14, 2013, the 130th anniversary of Marx's death, the originally silent Highgate Cemetery suddenly became lively. Wave after wave of visitors, with different skin colors, speaking different languages, holding flowers of various colors, with a solemn look, came to Marx's tomb to pay tribute to this great sage. Among them, there is a group of black-haired, yellow-skinned Chinese. This is a holy place in the hearts of countless like-minded people.
On top of the rectangular marble tombstone, the head of Marx cast in bronze, wise eyes are staring deeply ahead. Under the avatar, engraved in English, the cry of the world is engraved: "Proletarians of the world, unite!" "Under the tombstone, a bouquet of colorful flowers, bright or withered, quietly tells the admiration and longing for the great man. The inscription states that he was buried here before his wife Yanni, the eldest daughter and grandson. His second daughter and second son-in-law were later buried here.
Throughout the cemetery, Marx's tomb is particularly striking, which was rebuilt by the British Communist Party in November 1954. When it was rebuilt, the Communist Parties of various countries donated money one after another, and the Chinese Communist Party also generously donated money.
In front of the right side of Marx's tomb, about sixty or seventy meters away, there is also a stele. From the inscription, it can be seen that this is the original tomb of Marx. Only 11 people attended Marx's funeral. Another great man stood before his grave and said in a low voice: Marx was a genius revolutionary, the most hated and most vilified man in the world, but his heroic name and his cause will never be forgotten by mankind.
Marx and Engels
The man who said this was Engels. Engels was like a great prophet. Not many people believed this statement at the time, but in the following 100 years, it was repeatedly fulfilled.
Around the dawn of the new millennium, there was a wave of celebrities and events from around the world. Britain's four "Millennium Greats" selections have repeatedly confirmed Engels's words.
In 1999, at the College of Arts and Sciences of the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom, professors launched a campaign to select the "first thinker of the millennium", and the first rank was the German thinker Marx, and the Jewish scientist Einstein, who was habitually recognized as the first, was second. The rest are, in order: British physicist Newton, British scientist Darwin Italian scholastic philosopher Aquinas, British scientist Hawking (the only surviving person at the time), German philosopher Immanuel Kant, French mathematician and philosopher Descartes, British physicist Maxwell, German philosopher Nietzsche In September 1999, the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) also publicly voted on the global Internet for a month to select the "First Thinker of the Millennium". At the beginning of the selection campaign, Einstein led the vote. Later, Marx's vote skyrocketed, far ahead of Einstein.
In 2002, the British Reuters news agency invited celebrities from the political, business, artistic and academic fields to select the "Millennium Greats", and Marx was only slightly inferior to Einstein by a fraction of a point.
In July 2005, the BBC surveyed 30,000 listeners under the title of "The Greatest Philosophers of Ancient and Modern Times", Marx topped the list with 27.93% of the vote, the Scottish philosopher Hume ranked second with 12.6%, and other famous Western thinkers, such as Plato, Kant, Socrates, Aristotle, etc., were beyond reach. Hegel, whom Marx admired in his youth, did not even make it into the top 20.
For more than 100 years, the ideas of Marx and Engels have not only changed the way billions of people think, but also the way of life of billions of people.
In July 2003, Book magazine, a subsidiary of Barnes & Noble, the largest bookstore chain in the United States, published the "20 Books that Changed America" in its July-August compilation. Of the 20 books selected, only three are non-Americans, namely The Communist Manifesto by Marx and Engels, The Analysis of Dreams by Sigmund Freudsin, and General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money by John Maynard Keynes.
The Communist Manifesto has changed more than just an America. There is no force in the world that has changed the whole world like the Communist Manifesto!
Although it has been 173 years since the publication of the Communist Manifesto (2021), the light it emits has never diminished with the passage of time. This thin pamphlet, like a spark of stars, is gradually forming a burning trend in all corners of the world. Even in a remote village in central China's Zhejiang province, a fire was lit.
The Communist Manifesto
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Wangdao: The Past and Present Lives of the First Chinese Complete Translation of the Communist Manifesto
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By Xu Jingeng
For one century, the Communist Party of China has taken the "Communist Manifesto" as the spirit of guidance, led the sons and daughters of china to brave the wind and rain, seek happiness and liberation for the people, cross rapids and dangerous beaches, and escape the terrifying waves, and now it has embarked on a broad road of high-quality development. Tracing the past and present lives of the first Chinese full translation of the "Communist Manifesto", understanding the influence of the "Communist Manifesto" on the first generation of Chinese leaders and the significance brought to the Chinese revolution in the process of dissemination, feeling the truth power of Marxism in the retrospect of the history of the Party, and strengthening Marxist faith in the past are timely, very necessary, and of extremely strong practical significance.
This book is a key topic for celebrating the centenary of the founding of the Party, the first reportage in China to systematically and comprehensively examine the "Communist Manifesto", and it is an excellent realistic theme work deeply rooted in the history of the Party. From marx and Engels's writing of the Communist Manifesto to the founding of the Communist Party of China, to the process of Chen Wangdao's translation of the Chinese full translation of the Communist Manifesto, the book tells the past and present lives of the first Chinese full translation of the Communist Manifesto, and firmly grasps the main line of translating the Communist Manifesto, portraying the "Hopes" among intellectuals in the early twentieth century, as well as in the process of disseminating the Communist Manifesto. The influence on China's first generation of leaders and the significance brought to the Chinese revolution.
This book was selected as a special funding project of the National Publishing Fund for "Looking Back on the Centenary of the Founding of the Party", a key work support project of the China Writers Association in 2021, a theme publishing funding project of the Zhejiang Culture and Art Development Fund in 2021, a key publishing planning project of the "14th Five-Year Plan" of Zhejiang Province, a "Good Book of Zhejiang Media" in 2021, and a list of Good Books in China in December 2021.