关于按劳分配的若干理论问题

根据马克思主义基本原理,按劳分配是社会主义特有的分配方式,与资本主义分配方式有本质区别,我们应在坚持马克思主义基本原理的情况,正确理解我国在社会主义初级阶段的实行的以按劳分配为主、多种分配方式相结合的分配制度。     

历史的终结还是崭新的一页——关于21世纪社会主义在全球化时代的变革与使命

当代世界存在着"两幅图景"和"两种裂变",即当代发达资本主义的相对繁荣和全球资本主义的困境、世界社会主义面临的重大挫折以及一些社会主义国家在全球化进程中迎接挑战的改革和开创的新局面;世界资本主义内部出现的深刻的价值裂痕、世界社会主义内部两种理论与运动的分道扬镳."两幅图景"和"两种裂变"所揭示的不是西方自由主义者所认定的历史终结,而是世界社会主义与资本主义两种制度博弈历史尤其是社会主义历史进程的崭新一页,是对面向21世纪的社会主义在全球化进程中的使命提出的新要求."两幅图景"和"两种裂变"展示了当代资本主义的强势地位和社会主义环境的深刻巨变,也展示了资本主义世界历史体系的长期性、矛盾性和社会主义发展历程的光明性、曲折性.面对21世纪持续加速的全球化进程,面对社会主义又一轮崭新的历史进程,当代马克思主义者肩负着崭新的历史使命.     

解析韦伯"资本主义精神"

韦伯是20世纪西方著名的社会学家和伦理学家,他的宗教伦理学著作<新教伦理与资本主义精神>一书享誉世界,韦伯在此书中大胆地提出了"资本主义精神"这一概念,为资本主义的研究开启了新的思路.该文从伦理的角度,从几方面对韦伯资本主义精神的提出、资本主义精神的由来、资本主义精神的体现进行全方位的梳理,揭示了韦伯资本主义精神成为资本主义发展精神动力的奥秘,肯定了资本主义精神中的有益成份,看到了在市场经济条件下,资本主义精神中的勤劳、敬业、守信、合理获利等思想的当代价值.     

从全球化浪潮看社会主义前景

现代化是人类社会全方位、宽领域、多层面的改天换地的巨变.全球化是把人类实现现代化的成果全面推广、扩展到全球的各个国家和地区.资本主义现代化和全球化的三次浪潮,固然使世界面貌发生了大变化,但是也造成了大灾难.全球化浪潮是以新科技革命为原动力,新生产力革命为主动力,是不可抗拒的客观历史进程,对于社会主义者和社会主义国家,既是挑战又是机遇.在全球化浪潮下,未来社会主义将具有五个新特点.只要我们能够正确应对,经过长期坚持不懈的努力,必然实现世界社会主义和社会主义全球化.     

论《资本论》的生命力

《资本论》是马克思主义的百科全书。它首先是一部伟大的政治经济学著作。它以严密的逻辑揭示了资本主义经济的内在矛盾,科学地阐述了人类社会的经济发展规律,特别是市场经济的一般规律。《资本论》在主要分析资本主义经济内在矛盾的同时,合乎逻辑地推导出了社会主义社会的某些基本特征和经济规律。在今天,无论是研究现代资本主义,还是搞社会主义建设,都要以《资本论》所阐述的马克思主义经济学原理作为指导思想的理论基础。     

The Rise of India: Overcoming Caste Society and Permit-License-Quota Raj,Implementing Some Economic Freedom

Two or three centuries ago most of mankind was still very poor. When the West outgrew mass poverty, India was a British colony and suffered from stagnation. When East Asian economies exploited the advantages of backwardness and benefited from export-led growth, India remained inward-looking and poor. The ‘Hindu rate of growth’ preserved mass poverty. Since the reforms of the early 1990s India has exploited the advantages of backwardness and some global markets. In this article, the roots of India's failure to grow rapidly before the end of the twentieth century are analyzed. Stagnation is blamed on restrictions of economic freedom, whereas growth is explained by the expansion of economic freedom. Before the mid-twentieth century, the caste system and the legacy of sultanism curtailed economic freedom and contributed to economic stagnation. Thereafter, democratic socialism distorted incentives and generated ‘permit-license-quota raj’ or a rent-seeking society. When some obstacles to growth were dismantled, vigorous growth followed. Although expanding economic freedom remains limited. India's growth potential is not yet fully exploited. Indian infrastructure and human capital formation remain inadequate, regulations intrusive, and the budget in deficit. The rule of law looks better on paper than from the ground. Compared to China Indian public policy still has a lot of room for improvements. ‘Maoists’ or Naxalites threaten political stability and economic freedom. Geopolitics may explain India's late, slow and incomplete reforms. The rise of Asia, in particular of China and India, generates geopolitical challenges of its own. Conceivably, the global expansion of economic freedom permits not only the rise of Asia, but the peaceful management of the coming power transition between Asia and the West.     

经济法社会性背景的法理学考察——兼论德国经济法的社会市场经济背景

虽然社会性只是经济法属性的一个方面,却为经济法的理论与实践提供了新的路径。社会的本质既不是在整体,也不是在个人之中,而只能在人与人的关系,个人与整体的关系中去寻找。经济资本主义和经济社会主义基本展现了社会学视野中"国际社会"剥去意识形态外壳之后经济组织的主导形式。而从法律意义上讲,是经济法完成了资本与社会、作为经济组织形式的社会主义与资本主义的链接,这一点在西方国家尤其是德国得到了淋漓尽致的体现。德国经济法的社会市场经济背景给我们的深刻启示在于:中国经济法要确立社会自治、政府服务、国家与社会相融合的理念,淡化意识形态,强调"以人为本",充分重视财政立宪与地方分权,借鉴现有范式从多个层面进行经济法研究。     

Course corrections and failed rationales: how comparative advantage and debt are used to legitimise austerity in Africa and Latin America

This article examines the role of ideological mechanisms in support of long-term economic liberalisation. Specifically we examine the ideological roles of comparative advantage and debt reduction as precursors to austerity policy imposition. Austerity policies, as episodic mechanisms designed to deepen neoliberalisation, are examined in the comparative historical context of Africa and Latin America.     

Global commodity chain analysis and the French filière approach: comparison and critique

This article reviews two approaches to the study of economic restructuring which focus on commodity-specific dynamics of change. The first is the global commodity chain (GCC) approach, which has been developed primarily for the analysis of industrial commodities.The second is the francophone filière tradition, which has been applied mostly to agricultural commodities originating from former French colonies. The article finds that the GCC approach has a more coherent framework than the filière approach, although it is still far from constituting a fully fledged 'theory'. The authors provide a number of suggestions for improving some of its key concepts. They also suggest that the GCC approach can be enriched by some of the insights gained in filière work, especially in terms of improving historical coverage and depth, enlarging the analysis to agricultural commodities, better handling of regulation issues, and including quality convention issues in analysing commodity chain structure and restructuring.     

The Environmental Record of the Soviet Union

ABSTRACT

This article rethinks John Holloway’s emancipatory theory by “opening” his key concept of “dignity.” It argues that, while Holloway’s use of this concept works well for emphasising the uniqueness of human beings’ ability to both resist and challenge capitalist social relations, due to its underlying Kantian heritage, it is both excessively restrictive and limits the extent to which he can unlock the full potential of his theory, particularly when considering the development of new ecological sensibilities. To this end, the article explores the possibility of supplanting the concept of dignity with that of “Self-realisation.” While not entirely unproblematic, this concept not only reinforces the uniqueness Holloway associates with human agency but also helps unravel a more substantive virtue-orientated approach consistent with his thought.