From the Logic of Capital to the Logic of the People: The Civilizational Transcendence of Chinese Modernization

Zifei Wang

doi:10.47297/wspdecWSP2515-797319.20261003

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From the Logic of Capital to the Logic of the People: The Civilizational Transcendence of Chinese Modernization

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From the Logic of Capital to the Logic of the People: The Civilizational Transcendence of Chinese Modernization
From the Logic of Capital to the Logic of the People: The Civilizational Transcendence of Chinese Modernization
University of International Business and Economics, Beijing, 100029, China
2026年10卷第3期页码：103-107
纸质出版：2026-03-30
DOI：10.47297/wspdecWSP2515-797319.20261003
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Zifei Wang. (2026). From the Logic of Capital to the Logic of the People: The Civilizational Transcendence of Chinese Modernization. 发展经济学, 10(3), 103-107.

Wang Zifei.From the Logic of Capital to the Logic of the People: The Civilizational Transcendence of Chinese Modernization[J].Development Economics of China,2026,10(03):103-107.
Zifei Wang. (2026). From the Logic of Capital to the Logic of the People: The Civilizational Transcendence of Chinese Modernization. 发展经济学, 10(3), 103-107. DOI： 10.47297/wspdecWSP2515-797319.20261003.

Wang Zifei.From the Logic of Capital to the Logic of the People: The Civilizational Transcendence of Chinese Modernization[J].Development Economics of China,2026,10(03):103-107. DOI： 10.47297/wspdecWSP2515-797319.20261003.

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Abstract

The deep driving force of Western modernity is the self-expansion of capital. Through his critique of political economy

Marx uncovered the inner contradictions of this logic of capital: while unleashing the productive forces

it subjects human beings to the domination of capital and turns the community into an illusory one. The historic breakthrough of Chinese modernization lies in replacing the dominant logic of capital with the logic of the people. In its fundamental standpoint

it shifts from "valorization" to "each individual"; in its principle of development

from instrumental efficiency to the coordinated development of the individual and the collective; and in its vision of interaction

from central domination to "a community with a shared future." It overcomes the split between the individual and the community inherent in Western modernity

avoids the suppression of individuality typical of traditional socialist models

and thus provides a Chinese solution with universal referential significance for the predicaments of modernity.

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