Five Hundred Years of World Socialism and Its Prospect: Interview with Professor Enfu Cheng

ABSTRACT Recently, Dr. Jun Zhang interviewed Enfu Cheng, a well-known Marxist theorist and economist, President of the World Association for Political Economy, and Chief Professor at the University of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. Professor Cheng reviewed the five hundred years of world socialist development up to our own time, and examined the further prospects for socialism and communism. He explained the different stages of world socialist development, the evolution of world socialist thought, and how a future communist society might be conceived and realized. He explored the causes of the collapse of the Soviet Union, the first socialist country in the world, and analyzed China’s achievements in developing the socialist planned economy and socialist market economy.