Four Marxist Scholars Died in Four Days During the Recent COVID Outbreak

A coffin is loaded into a storage container at the Dongjiao crematorium and funeral home, one of several in the city that handles the bodies of people who died from COVID-19 in Beijing, China, on Dec. 18, 2022. Getty Images

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.