The Global Civilization Initiative's Original Contribution to Marx and Engels'Theory of World Communication
Based on the social large-scale production and capital logic,Marx and Engels revealed the inevitability of world communication.While affirming that capitalism promotes world communication,also criti-cizing the injustice of world communication dominated by capital,thereby pointing out the future direction of world communication,which is to establish a"real community"and realize the free and comprehensive devel-opment of human beings.However,due to the West's advantage in the three scientific and technological revo-lutions and industrial changes,coupled with the influence of traditional metaphysical thinking and the spirit of the Christian gospel,the West's"civilizational superiority"has been deeply rooted,and this has become"cen-trism"trend that deviates from Marx's"community"thought,represented by the theory of the clash of civiliza-tions,the theory of universal values and neo-interventionism.As a contemporary development of Marx and Engels'theory of world communication,the four aspects of the Global Civilization Initiative are closely connect-ed and mutually reinforcing,building a systematic and complete framework to promote human civilization com-munication.At the same time,the Global Civilization Initiative reshapes the basic principles of world commu-nication based on the diversity of modernization and achieves the transcendence of"Western centralism";based on the logic of the people,it transcends the concept dominated by the logic of capital and regards the free and comprehensive development of human beings as starting point and end point of world communication;building a community with a shared future for mankind based on the principle of"real community"achieves the transcendence of"false communities",thus demonstrating the original contribution of the Global Civiliza-tion Initiative to Marx and Engels'world communication theory.
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