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26 June 2026

Review: How Japanese Marxism Shaped a Taiwanese Economist

An intellectual biography of Taiwanese economist Liu Shinkei reveals how Japanese Marxist debates shaped his analysis of post-war economic development and his enduring search for an endogenous theory of modernisation rooted in national experience.

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The Future

The future is not what comes tomorrow, the time of the calendar. It is when our human journey breaks from the realism of capitalism and enters a structure that permits us to fully solve human…

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23 April 2026

A Dialogue Across Civilisations, for Now: The Seventeenth Newsletter (2026)

The way Iran has been able to stand up to the West has become a source of admiration across the formerly colonised world. Where does that confidence come from?

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27 June 2025

Chinese Experiments in Socialist Modernisation

Rather than a fixed ideal, socialism is a process of experimentation. The essays in this issue examine how China’s modernisation offers new insights into the socialist path, with all its contradictions.

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27 June 2025

Chinese Experiments in Socialist Modernisation

This issue of Wenhua Zongheng (文化纵横) explores socialist experiments, China’s unique industrial development, and debates over agrarian transformation amidst ideological struggles.

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27 June 2025

On the Experimental Nature of Socialism and the Complexity of China’s Reform and Opening Up

Li Tuo traces how China’s modernisation can be understood as part of a long tradition of socialist experimentation, from the Paris Commune to Lenin’s New Economic Policy and China’s own reform and opening up.

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14 January 2025

Towards a New Development Theory for the Global South

As progressive governments take office in the Global South, now more than ever there is a burning need for a new development theory that can fulfil the Promethean aspirations of the darker nations.

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19 December 2023

Chinese Perspectives on Twenty-First Century Socialism

The fourth issue traces the historical evolution of socialism and examines how socialism will continue to develop in the twenty-first century.

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4 July 2023

The World Needs a New Socialist Development Theory

Dossier no. 66 examines the historical and current thinking on the question of development and offers an outline for a new socialist development theory.

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22 September 2022

Without Culture, Freedom Is Impossible: The Thirty-Eighth Newsletter (2022)

‘Without culture’, Fidel Castro Ruz said, ‘freedom is not possible’. Culture is essential to the dignity of all human beings. For this reason, the Cuban Revolution helped return high art forms like ballet to the…

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20 September 2022

Ten Theses on Marxism and Decolonisation

Unpacking national liberation Marxism in ten theses, dossier no. 56 recovers traditions grounded in scientific approaches and a sincere desire to confront the dilemmas of humanity.

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