The dialogue and exchange among civilizations in the world is extremely grim, as the world is undergoing profound changes unseen in a century, with an increasingly complicated and intertwined international situation where the theme of the times of peace and development is being tested. That the capitalist countries under the domination of capitalist logic are going against the trend and pushing hegemonism results in the dialogue and exchange among civilizations being constrained by multiple dilemmas, which reflects the world communication order dominated by capitalism, no longer able to keep abreast of the times, needs reviewing and reconstructing. Marxist world communication theory is a theoretical mirror through which we might accurately see through the dilemma of dialogue and exchange among civilizations today. Marx and Engels, while expounding the historical significance of dialogue and exchange among civilizations, made a profound critique of capitalism that had led to the injustice of civilizational dialogue and exchange and pointed out the future trend of world communication. The new form of human civilization, a contemporary construction of Marxist theory of world communication, provides a scientific solution to the dilemma of world communication by respecting the diversity of civilizations as the fundamental premise of equal dialogue among them, by promoting the common values of all mankind to form among civilizations the value consensus of meeting the challenges together, and by facilitating the innovation of civilizations to cast the practical dynamics of deep intermingling among civilizations.

Editor: Zhong Yao、Deng Panyi

From: Studies on Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping Theories.2023.No.4.