Duan Zhongqiao, the renowned Beijing based philosophy scholar and his colleagues, have analyzed the nine influential trends and movements of the times keenly observing how their prominent representatives have reflected on manifold problems of capitalism .With an original exegesis they have delved into the inner logic of those thoughts and thrown light on the major counterpoints in them. These trends in the spheres of philosophy, economics, politics, sociology and Marxist theory have shaken and challenged academy, parties, governments and peoples lives, some of them defending the existing...