为总结改革开放40年的成就，探讨改革开放40年理论创新与实践创新的经验，推进新时代中国特色社会主义的创新发展，中国社会科学院马克思主义研究院拟以“改革开放40年与中国特色社会主义新时代”为主题，召开第九届马克思主义中国化学术论坛。现面向全国从事该领域研究的专家、学者征文。
一、论坛主题：改革开放40年与新时代中国特色社会主义
二、论坛时间：2018年5月11日（星期......

 
Michael Roberts
 
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The world economy is in a Long Depression. However, world capitalism will not stay in this depressed state. Eventually, probably after another slump that will destroy more capital values (the value of means of production, fictitious capital and employment), profitability for those that survive will rise sufficiently to......

 
Juan Barredo-Zuriarrain, Ricardo Molero-Simarro, and Alejandro Quesada-Solana
 
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This paper seeks to present a proposal of reform of the TARGET2 (Trans-European Automated Real-Time Gross Settlement Express Transfer) system aimed to correct intra-European Union (EU) financial, trade, and productive imbalances. For this purpose, the propos......

辞旧迎新，万象更新！在深入学习贯彻党的十九大精神的奋进声中，新时代的中国送别辉煌的2017年，迎来伟大的2018年。在大踏步跨入2018年之际，新时代的中国人民对未来更加充满信心和期待，我们坚信，经过过去五年的砥砺奋进，在新的一年里，以习近平同志为核心的党中央一定能带领全党、全军和全国各族人民，在继续进行具有许多新的特点的伟大斗争中创造新的伟大辉煌。
新时代来......

 
Alexander Gallas
 
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Althusser and Poulantzas explored the nature of the capitalist state against the backdrop of a joint problematic, which concerned the reproduction of class domination. They established a variant of Marxism that provided the theoretical groundwork for political analysis and strategic reflection, which can be called con......

 
Stephen R Hurt
 
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This article addresses the question of ‘the left’ in contemporary South Africa in two senses: first, in terms of assessing the health of leftist politics; second, it asks to what extent are the self-identified left progressive in any meaningful sense. The first half of this article reflects on the current development ......

 
Greg Sharzer
 
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In contemporary discourse, cooperatives are often considered as vehicles for post-capitalist social transformation. However, theorists affiliated with the first, second, and third Internationals groupings of socialist parties suggested that cooperative potential was circumscribed by market coercion, leaving co-ops with li......

 
Duong Duc Dai
 
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This article focuses on the link between alienation, commodity fetishism and human development. Alienation and commodity fetishism appear in different ways, very abstract and invisibly. People engage innocently with these phenomena without awareness of how their well-beings are related to. Empirically, this research reve......

习近平总书记在党的十九大报告中明确指出：“经过长期努力，中国特色社会主义进入了新时代，这是我国发展新的历史方位”。党的十九大报告把十八大以来党的理论创新成果概括为新时代中国特色社会主义思想，大会通过的党章修正案把习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想确立为我们党的行动指南，实现了党的指导思想的又一次与时俱进。深刻认识和准确把握习近平新时代中国特色社会主义......

 
Alexis B Moraitis and Jack Copley
 
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The categories of productive and unproductive labour have been a source of contention among Marxist scholars since Marx first committed them to paper. This article will offer a critique of both the orthodox and autonomist approaches to this issue, arguing that they constitute transhistorical and analy......