Marx and Engels'Theory of the"Bipolar Connection"Between the Chinese and European Revolutions and Its Contemporary Value
Marx and Engels used the position,viewpoint and method of dialectical materialism and historical materialism to examine the connection between the Chinese and European revolutions in the 1840s,and put for-ward the theory of"Bipolar Connection"theory.The theory of"Bipolar Connection"examines the external fac-tors that triggered China's social changes from the standpoint of world history,opens up a new perspective to study the mechanism of China's political and economic evolution on the role of the Western civilization,and pre-dicts the unique value of China's social changes for the national liberation movements of the colonial and semi-colonial countries,which is distinctive in its theoretical breakthroughs and innovations.Exploring the contempo-rary value of the theory of"Bipolar Connection",we can find its value implication for promoting Chinese modern-ization in the new era,in terms of adhering to the unity of independence and opening up,deepening the reform comprehensively on the basis of conforming to the trend of the times and actively promoting the construction of a community of human destiny.
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