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China's socialist system maintains public ownership of key economic sectors and state control over the commanding heights, enabling the state to direct development toward long-term national goals and the material well-being of the people, distinguishing its market economy from capitalism.
Argues that China's market socialism is not a restoration of capitalism but a Marxist-Leninist development strategy that prioritizes developing productive forces, and that within the context of global inequality, China's rise is reducing international disparities and challenging Western dominance.
Roland Boer's book uses Chinese Marxist scholarship to explain socialism with Chinese characteristics, arguing that Marxism is China's 'special skill' and that Western frameworks of analysis, including those of Western Marxists.
Outlines three stages of socialism based on transformations in productive relations, from mixed ownership with market mechanisms to full public ownership and planned economy, culminating in communism.
A delegation discusses China's socialist development and historical sites with professors from Fudan University during a visit to Shanghai.
Despite such features, China can still be described as socialist, grounding its case in the persistence of socialist structures and the state's continued guiding role within the reformed economy—a claim that reframes the global debate on capitalism's convergence and the viability of socialism's path.
In this 1979 speech, Deng Xiaoping outlines why China must uphold the Four Cardinal Principles—socialism, proletarian dictatorship, Party leadership, and Marxism-Leninism-Mao Zedong Thought—as it shifts focus to modernization, warning against those who seek to undermine these pillars.
Carlos Martinez critiques Jacobin's review of China, arguing that comparing China's development to an imagined utopia ignores its socialist foundations, massive poverty reduction, and structural protections for workers.
Carlos Martinez defends China's socialist trajectory against Marxist critiques, arguing that state control over capital and the direction of surplus value distinguish it from imperialism.
Lenin explains the New Economic Policy as a strategic retreat, emphasizing personal incentive, stricter discipline, and political education to overcome cultural backwardness and build socialism.
Deng Xiaoping warns China must uphold socialism against Western 'peaceful evolution' and criticizes the Group of Seven's human rights stance as imperialist interference in sovereign states.
Webinar explores how China's achievements in poverty reduction, technology, ecology, and infrastructure stem from its socialist system.
Planning and market are means to develop productive forces, not inherently capitalist or socialist, justifying their use in China's reform.
Marxist political economy remains essential for China's development, detailing how its integration with Chinese practice has produced theories on people-centered development, new development philosophy, and socialist market economy.
