In the four-day period between Dec. 26 and Dec. 29, four Marxist scholars in China died one after another.
On Dec. 26, Professor He Zikun, a professor of philosophy at Sun Yat-sen University, died in Guangzhou at the age of 90. His obituary stated that he had long been engaged in the study of “the history of Marxist philosophy” and “Plekhanov’s philosophy.” Plekhanov was an early Marxist in Russia.
Xu Zhengfan, a First Class Honorary Professor at Renmin University of China (RUC), died on Dec. 28 in Beijing at the age of 95.
RUC announced his death two days later, praising him for being “an outstanding member of the CCP, Marxist theorist and theoretical educator, [and] one of the main founders of the Marxist theory for the CCP.”…