Marx, Engels Predict Globalization in Communist ManifestoGlobalization, a vocabulary in fashion today, has been predicted by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels some 150 years ago as the result of the development of world production and contacts.Scholars and experts reached that agreement at a seminar on Manifesto of the Communist Party and globalization held over the weekend in Beijing University. They believed that the Manifesto co-authored by Marx and Engels, the first guideline for scientific socialism, has elaborated globalization as the inevitable outcome of the production and contacts in the world as well as the new worldwide expansion of the basic confrontation of the capitalist society. The scholars and experts noted that globalization does not change the nature of capital. It is not a solution to the exploitation problem in the capitalist society, either. Therefore globalization can not solve the interior confrontations born with capitalism. They expressed the belief that the conclusion drawn by Marx and Engels in the Communist Manifesto is not out of date and globalization will not alter the destiny of capitalism. The seminar was held by the philosophy department of Beijing University, one of the most prestigious universities in China known as "Bei Da" in Chinese, and its research institute of Marxism documents. The seminar received letters of congratulations from Albert Foundation of Germany and a research institute from Trier, birthplace of Marx. Written in 1848, the Communist Manifesto has been published for over one hundred times in 19 languages when the authors were still alive. The Bible-like monumental work has been translated into over 200 languages over the past 150 years. The Chinese version, translated by Chen Wangdao, was published in 1920 as the first fully translated version of Chinese. |
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