Jian Fan

Author：（1989-）, male, Wuhan, Hubei Province, is a doctoral student at the School of Marxism, Renmin University of China, mainly engaged in the research on the theory and practice of communism. He earned doctor degree at the School of Marxism, Renmin University of China, mainly engaged in the research on the theory and practice of communism.

Abstract: Communism, once the guiding ideology of proletarian revolution and socialism construction in the 20th century, has been under attack after the Cold War by various forces, including liberalism, conservatism, and social democracy. Communism, once the guiding ideology of proletarian revolution and socialist construction in the 20th century, has been under attack after the Cold War by various forces, including liberalism, conservatism, and social democracy. liberalism, conservatism, social democracy and other forces, facing an unprecedented discourse/ideological crisis.

The Communist Party and Workers’ Party of Europe and some left-wing scholars, on the other hand, resolutely took up the banner of “communism”, defended the real image of communism, and made efforts to revive the discourse of communism, thus forming a new wave of communist thinking. The Communist Party and Workers’ Party of Europe and some left-wing scholars, on the other hand, resolutely took up the banner of “communism”, defended the real image of communism, and made efforts to revive the discourse of communism, thus forming a new wave of communist thinking.

They have introduced, researched and discussed this issue and produced some research results, which have further expanded the influence of this wave of communist thinking. They have introduced, researched and discussed this issue and produced some research results, which have further expanded the influence of this wave of thinking. Therefore, below we attempt to categorize and introduce these research results from four cross- cutting dimensions, namely, domestic and foreign, political parties and scholars, with a view to drawing wider attention of domestic scholars to this

Therefore below we attempt to categorize and introduce these research results from four cross- cutting dimensions, namely, domestic and foreign, political parties and scholars, with a view to drawing wider attention of domestic scholars to this cutting-edge issue. From the founding of scientific socialism in the mid-19th century, communism has gradually become a hot topic of academic research and political discussion,… And wave after wave of communist thinking developed.

This has led to a thriving research on these currents of thought. In contrast, relatively few studies have researched post-Cold War communist ideology. There are three main reasons for this: firstly, it has only been 25 years since the end of the Cold War, and communism, which has emerged from the pains of history, has only just gained the momentum of inheritance and revitalization, and still needs time to develop and grow, and the study of this new wave of thinking as an object is even more so the study is only just getting started.

Secondly, the historical mystery of the dramatic changes in the Soviet Union has been a source of fascination for many scholars, and even today there are still many scholars who are willing to focus their efforts in studying communism on the history of the Soviet Union and the eventual collapse of the Soviet model, or to track the economic and social development of the countries in the former Soviet Union in the so-called post-communist era. The turn to this academic interest will also take some time.

Thirdly, the major setback of the Soviet Union’s dramatic change made communism, once the ideology of socialist countries, subject to controversy, criticism and even denigration and discredit, and communism became synonymous with authoritarianism and dictatorship and encountered an unprecedented discourse (ideology) crisis, so that the space for the survival of the communist ideology drastically narrowed, and the phenomenon of the fear of talking about communism or even the shame of talking about communism appeared in the international community, which is still unending to the present day.

However, there are still some communist parties and left-wing scholars in Europe after the Cold War who are convinced that communism has not failed, and who have resolutely taken up the theoretical banner of communist thought and broken through the shackles of the capitalist liberal democratic discourse in order to understand and fully commit themselves to communism, and to once again act with complete loyalty to the communist concept. [1]

In the face of Fukuyama’s questioning of the end of history and Hobsbawm’s query that socialism had failed, that capitalism was now bankrupt, and what is next, their answer was: communism! To this end, they have put forward a number of new understandings and concepts of the theoretical meaning and realization of communism, trying to show that communism exists in the contemporary necessities and possibilities, vowing to realize the revival of communism, thus creating a new wave of new communist thinking. Accordingly, a number of scholars in China and abroad have been actively pursuing research on their ideas. The following paper describes the current state of research on the communist ideology of the post-Cold War European left in four intersecting dimensions: domestic and foreign, political parties and scholars.

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