It has been more than seven years since General Secretary Xi Jinping officially put forward the important proposition of “developing Marxism in the 21st century”. In the past few years, prior studies have rarely explored the proposition, let alone give an in-depth theoretical explanation. Since 2021, scholars have started to make discussions theoretically, and they have also been able to express their views on some of the basic issues. However, so far, there are still many vague understandings about some basic issues of “developing Marxism in the 21st century” that provide unclear explanations. This article takes an explanatory approach that sees history from a broader perspective, based on the theoretical framework of “adapting Marxism to the Chinese context and to the needs of our times”, tries to understand the historical and logical starting point of the origin of Marxism in the 21st century, and discusses issues concerning the relationships between Marxism in the 21st century and that adapted to the needs of our times, between Marxism in the 21st century and that in contemporary China, between Marxism in the 21st century and that in the 19th and 20th centuries, between Marxism in the 21st century in China and that overseas, between Marxism in the 21st century and the questions posed by China, by the world, by the people, and by the times, between Marxism in the 21st century in China and the Chinese-style modernization, between the new form of human civilization and a community of shared future for mankind, between Marxism in the 21st century in China and the transformation of philosophical paradigms in the 21st century, and that Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era is Marxism in the 21st Century, among others.

Editor: Zhong Yao、Zheng Yifan

From:Teaching and Research.2023.No.3.