The Century-Old Communist Party of China Promotes New Developments In the International Communist Movement

Gong Yun[1]

[Abstract] In over a century since its founding, the Communist Party of China has creatively explored a new road to the proletarian revolution with Chinese characteristics, and set an example for backward countries to embark on socialism. Meanwhile it saved the international communist movement at critical moments, and wrote a new chapter of China in international communist movement. The CPC has left its own marks in the history of international communist movement as it is playing a leading role in the new era, and promoting new developments.

[Keywords] Communist Party of China, International Communist Movement, Socialism with Chinese Characteristics

Aiming at overthrowing the capitalism, the international communist movement is a proletarian movement led by communists under the guidance of Marxism, and it has a history of more than 170 years. Engels wrote: “Modern Socialism is, in its essence, the direct product of the recognition, on the one hand, of the class antagonisms existing in the society of today between proprietors and non-proprietors, between capitalists and wage-workers; on the other hand, of the anarchy existing in production.”[2] Deng Xiaoping also pointed out that “since the very beginning it has been proved there can be no international communist movement without a party of the proletariat.”[3] The historical process of socialism replacing capitalism embodies the dialectical unity of the inevitability of the historical trend and the dynamic role of the historical subjects, and it includes conscious actions of the proletariat and the masses led by the communists, and cannot be successful without the correct leadership of a proletarian party. With a history of over one century, the Communist Party of China (CPC) has written an important chapter of China in the history of international communist movement, and now promotes the new developments.

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[1] Gong Yun, researcher and doctoral supervisor of Academy of Marxism, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.

[2] Collected Works of Marx and Engels, Volume III, Beijing: People’s Publishing House, 2009, p. 523.

[3] Selected Works of Deng Xiaoping, Volume II, Beijing: People’s Publishing House, 1994, p. 169.