Cheng, Dacai. "The Contemporary Meaning of Marxism." Marxism and Ecological Civilization Conference, Claremont, CA. October 2007.

Abstract

Although Marx passed away over 120 years ago and the cause in which Marx had put his whole life for the proletariats and the whole mankind's revolution and liberation temporarily went into a low valley after several turns and twists, there were a great deal of excellent research results flowing out and the research of Marxism named after his name. They brought about one and another high tides in the world academic circles around the new millennium's arrival. Regardless of the concrete motive and reason of these researchers, and no matter how different their value orientation, their title selections, their focus and their study method was, the fever of this kind of research explained that Marxism which was born in 150 years ago still had the thriving source of vitality, and deeply inspiring, influential and flexible leading meaning to the development of the contemporary academic thoughts and social progress of mankind.