In this article, the term ‘industrial policy’ refers to the aggregate of all policies undertaken by the state to influence the development, catch-up, and innovation of specific industries. According to this definition, industrial policy is a selective policy that focuses on specific industries, rather than a universal or functional policy applied broadly to most industries. […]
This issue of the international edition of Wenhua Zongheng (文化纵横) explores China’s path to socialist modernisation as a world historical process. The essays highlight the experimental nature of socialism, China’s unique institutional mechanisms of industrial development, and debates over agrarian transformation in a context of persistent ideological struggle. Xiong Jie reviews Lu Xinyu’s influential analysis
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I. To understand the complexity of socialism, it is best to take a broad historical perspective on the actual development of socialist movements.1 Particular attention should be paid to an often-overlooked aspect of this development – the continuous experiments that have accompanied the history of the socialist movement. Some of these experiments have succeeded, while
The current historical conjuncture is characterised by multiple crises and conflagrations, from the fratricidal war between Russia and Ukraine, to the resistance of Francophone Africa against neocolonialism, to the struggles waged by millions of people to access basic necessities such as food and housing even in supposedly wealthy countries like the United States. In the
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⏵ Listen to Wiyathi na Ithaka – Joseph Kamaru [Listen to Wiyathi na Ithaka (‘Freedom and Land’), an anthem of the Mau Mau rebellion against British colonial rule, sung by Joseph Kamaru.] ‘Who are those singing? Why are they crying? They are singing for their hero coming from the forest’. Sung in Gĩkũyũ, these
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Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels never left the socialist movement with a blueprint for building a new society out of the contradictions of capitalism. They merely provided a concrete analysis of the movement of capital, that too based on their access to resources outlining the development of capitalism primarily in Europe. In fact, they were
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Reacciones iniciales a una nueva escalada en el Medio Oriente César J. Mejías Junio 2025 La noche del 21 de junio de 2025, tras una semana del inicio de la escalada de agresiones entre Irán e Israel, el presidente estadounidense Donald Trump hizo un anuncio sobre los ataques unilaterales de Estados Unidos a las instalaciones
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Adrián Rocha Junio 2025 Quienes siguen de cerca los diferentes conflictos que tienen lugar en el Medio Oriente saben que el enfrentamiento entre Irán e Israel no representa una sorpresa. Si bien resultaba imposible predecir cuándo se desataría un enfrentamiento directo, histórico e irreversible entre ambos países, la secuencia de acontecimientos decantada a partir del
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Volume 39, Issue 4, null 2025, Page 327-351. Read More
