INTERNATIONAL CRITICAL THOUGHT

　　Volume 2 Number 2 June 2012

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　　Contents

　　Articles

　　Alternative thoughts and practice to contemporary capitalism: A response to Francis Fukuyama’s criticism

　　Cheng Enfu and Ding Xiaoqin

　　Much ado about nothing? World-historical implications of the re-emergence of China and India

　　Ravi Arvind Palat

　　Promoting common prosperity through improving ownership relations in China

　　He Ganqiang

　　The Chongqing practice: An example of the China Model

　　Hou Huiqin, Xin Xiangyang and Ren Limei

　　From ‘use of old forms’ to ‘establishment of a national form’: A re-evaluation of Mao’s agenda of forging a cultural-political nation

　　Wang Xiaoping

　　Reconsidering ‘Middle East and Islamic studies’ for a changing world

　　Carimo Mohomed

　　The distorted democracy in Africa: Examining the cases of South Africa, Libya and Ivory Coast

　　Antoine Roger Lokongo

　　Debates

　　Economic systems and theory of human nature: Aristotle, Adam Smith, and Karl Marx

　　Hirotaro Yamamoto

　　Understanding Marx’s Theory of communism: A review of Hirotaro Yamamoto’s ‘Economic systems and the theory of human nature’

　　Wu Dong and Liu Zhen

　　Information and Trends

　　A review of the ‘Occupy Wall Street’ movement and its global influence

　　Tan Yangfang

　　Reshaping the ongoing world: A review of the 12th World Social Forum

　　Ma Yanshen