At least ten aging Marxist theorists and professors in China have died one after another in the two-month period from Jan. 3 to March 2, including Jin Huiming, a member of the China Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) and former director of the Theory Bureau of the Propaganda Department of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP); Xu Chongwen, a member of the CASS and an expert in the history of Marxist philosophy; and Cui Guitian, director of the Institute of Contemporary Socialism at Shandong University.
Jin Huiming, 89, the former director of the Theory Bureau of the Propaganda Department and former director of the Institute of Marxism-Leninism-Mao Zedong Thought, died on March 1 in Sanya City due to illness.
Born in December 1934, Mr. Jin’s major publications include Marx’s Great Change in Historical Perspective, History of Marxist Philosophy, and the History, Theory, and Reality of Socialism, and Studies on the Theoretical System of Socialism with Chinese Characteristics.
Xu Chongwen, 93, an honorary member of the CASS and former director of the Research Office of the History of Marxist Philosophy, died on Feb. 26 in Beijing due to illness.
Born in July 1930, Mr. Xu was engaged in research on the history of Marxist philosophy, Western Marxism, democratic socialism, Deng Xiaoping’s theory, and scientific socialism.
His major works include Western Marxism, Studies on the Theory of Western Marxism, An Analysis of Democratic Socialism, Some Issues of Contemporary Socialism: Historical Experience of International Socialism and Socialism with Chinese Characteristics, Socialism and Capitalism at the Turn of the Century, and The Socialist Viewpoints of the Major Foreign Thinking Trends and Streams in the Modern World.
He was the chief editor of a book series titled Research Series on Marxism and Socialism in Foreign Countries.
Zhong Yuren, 97, an expert in German philosophical studies, translator, and professor emeritus of the Renmin University of China, died on March 2 in Beijing.
Born in March 1926, he was a classroom interpreter for Soviet experts in the Basic Marxism-Leninism Department and the Philosophy Department of the Renmin University. He was engaged in the study of European empirical theory and theoretical philosophy, German classical philosophy, and modern German philosophy, and he translated and edited textbooks on the history of Marxist philosophy and the history of European philosophy. He has also published numerous papers, including the theory of alienation from Hegel to Marx.
Mr. Zhong had been the recipient of a special allowance from the CCP’s State Council.
Cheng Youxin, 93, a professor at Beijing Normal University and former deputy director of the Education Research Society of the China Education Association, died on March 2 due to illness.
Born in June 1930, Mr. Cheng joined the CCP underground organization in 1948 and went to Moscow in 1956 to study at the Research Department of the Lenin Pedagogical Institute, obtaining an Associate’s Degree in Educational Science. He began his teaching and research career at Beijing Normal University in 1979.
The official obituaries praised him for having made unique contributions in the field of Marxist educational thought.
Cui Guitian, director of the Institute of Contemporary Socialism at Shandong University, died on Feb. 20 in Jinan City, Shandong Province, at the age of 64.
Mr. Cui was also a member of the Academic Review Group of the Academic Degrees Committee of the State Council, a standing member of the Shandong Association of Scientific Socialism, and a member of the Foreign Socialism Specialized Committee of the so-called Association of Scientific Socialism.
He has mainly researched socialist countries such as Laos, North Korea, and Cuba. Many of his reports have been adopted by the Organization Department of the Central Committee of the CCP and the Ministry of Education; and many of his papers have won the first, second, and third prizes of the so-called Excellent Achievements in Party Building Research of the Central Organization Department of the CCP.
Marxism and Satanism
Richard Wurmbrand, a Romanian priest and WWII hero who was imprisoned and tortured by Romania’s communist regime, wrote the book “Marx and Satan,” in which he noted that Karl Marx, the founder of the Marxist ideology, had been a Christian in his early years.
Further reviews of Marx’s literature reveal that Marx had a stated spiritual intention in his writings, and that Marx said he had made a pact with Satan to cast all mankind into hell.
Just as in Bible, where Satan becomes known for his lies and deception, Marx used similar lies and tricks to concoct his so-called communist theory, which was written with the purpose of destroying mankind spiritually by casting out God.
Many scholars have noted that Marx’s ideology, in fact, modernized the satanic doctrine, wrapping up Satanism in the garb of political “communism” to hide its true nature. Its stated intentions are to make people forsake God and indulge their desires at the expense of their better selves, forsaking a virtuous and meaningful life.
