Since the end of last year, some economists and former government officials have concentrated on publishing fallacies and heresies in the media and propaganda, forming a considerable tide of public opinion. They echoed certain forces at home and abroad, tried their best to "sing the praises of China," made a mess of the fundamentals and future trends of the mainland's economic development, and then prescribed their panacea. Although these theoretical viewpoints are packaged in some very mysterious theoretical words, and they appear colorful and dazzling on the surface, their essence cannot be hidden, that is, they advocate changing the basic socialist economic system clearly stipulated in the mainland constitution and advocating privatization to dominate the world. The broad masses of cadres and the masses are very dissatisfied with the remarks made by these scholars and officials. Therefore, it is necessary for us to criticize the erroneous remarks of these liberalization experts and clarify the theoretical and political rights and wrongs by studying and applying Xi Jinping's economic thought, which is the proper meaning of building the "two establishments" and achieving the "two safeguards".
(a)
The basic economic system of the mainland at the present stage is clearly stipulated in the Constitution, and the Constitution has given a clear legal status to the public economy and all types of non-public economy. The public and non-public sectors of the economy are protected by law and must never be allowed to be subverted. General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: "The public ownership system as the main body, the common development of the economy under various forms of ownership, the distribution according to work as the main body, the coexistence of a variety of distribution methods, the socialist market economic system and other basic socialist economic systems, not only reflect the superiority of the socialist system, but also adapt to the development level of the social productive forces in the initial stage of socialism on the mainland, which is conducive to stimulating the vitality of various market entities. The liberation and development of the productive forces is conducive to promoting the organic unity of efficiency and fairness and promoting the common prosperity of all the people, which is a great creation of the party and the people." This basic economic system has been proved to be completely correct through the practice of reform and opening up for more than 40 years. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the CPC Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at the core has repeatedly reaffirmed its adherence to the "two unwavering". The party and the government instructed all localities to safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of private enterprises in accordance with the law, stressed that people from the new social strata are the builders of China's modernization, affirmed and commended the important contributions made by private entrepreneurs, and affirmed that entrepreneurs are "their own people." Last year, the central government also issued 31 policy opinions to support the better development of the private sector.
However, some economists ignore the above basic facts and advocate that "the key to the development and growth of private enterprises is to break through institutional and legal barriers", saying that "what private enterprises want is not preferential policies or slogan support, but what private enterprises want is a legal environment, legal status, and a fair and equal legal environment." They also said: "Why do private entrepreneurs have no sense of security, it is not recognized from the constitutional level, because the mainland constitution stipulates that public ownership is the main body." It can be seen from their remarks that they are not proceeding from the mainland's basic national conditions and the practical experience of Chinese-style modernization to consolidate and improve the mainland's basic economic system, but want to completely change this system. An economist put it more bluntly: "I think the market economy is the private economy, and private enterprises are the main body; In fact, state-owned enterprises are a supplement to private enterprises, and they have to do those things that private enterprises cannot do and cannot do well." He accused the government of "tossing and turning as soon as the situation is good" and "the reason why we can't get out of this historical circle is that our party's political transformation is not in place." Listen, isn't this openly challenging the constitution and the existing basic economic and political systems? They label the party and the government as "tossing," but in fact they themselves are the ones who really want to make a big toss. Isn't it a big toss to advocate reversing the primary and secondary positions of the state-owned economy and the private economy?
The broad masses of cadres and masses know that both the public and non-public sectors of the economy are important components of the socialist market economy and an important foundation for the mainland's economic and social development. Consolidating and developing the public sector of the economy and at the same time encouraging, supporting, and guiding the development of the non-public sector of the economy is not antagonistic but organically unified. The relationship between them should be complementary and mutually reinforcing, not mutually exclusive and counterproductive. Those liberal economists have not only ignored the mainland's constitution and relevant laws and regulations, but also ignored materialist dialectics and deliberately stirred up antagonism and conflict between the public-owned and non-public-owned economies. As a matter of fact, the vast number of private enterprises on the mainland have developed rapidly under the mainland's basic socialist economic system since the beginning of reform and opening up, and they are the builders and beneficiaries of modernization just like the state-owned economy. It is under this system that private enterprises are protected by law and supported by governments at all levels, from scratch, from small to large, to today's 56789. The vast majority of private entrepreneurs are grateful to the party and the state, and the efforts of liberal intellectuals to sow discord are futile. Some private enterprises have encountered some difficulties in operation in recent years, which are caused by a variety of objective factors at home and abroad, especially the suppression of international capital, but on the whole, it is a temporary difficulty and a difficulty in moving forward, and it is inevitable to usher in a rainbow after the storm. The ignorant rhetoric of liberal economists is in no way representative of private enterprises.
Comrade Deng Xiaoping, the chief architect of the mainland's reform and opening up, clearly pointed out when talking about the market economy: capitalism can have a plan, and socialism can have a market. The operating mechanism of the market economy can be used by capitalism and socialism. It was precisely on the basis of Comrade Deng Xiaoping's important thinking that the 14 th CPC National Congress formally proposed the establishment of a socialist market economic system. Those economists who advocate that the market economy is the private economy and that the private economy is the main body are untenable and wrong in theory, politics, and practice. The basic economic system of the state is the great power of the country, and it has a bearing on the entire superstructure, the ruling foundation of the party, and the future and destiny of the country.
(b)
The law of the development of human society is that with the development of the productive forces, the development and change of the relations of production should be constantly promoted to meet the requirements of the productive forces. The capitalist system, in which a small number of entrepreneurs own the vast majority of the means of production and obtain the vast majority of social wealth, has long been abandoned by the people's revolution on the mainland; Worldwide, privatization, which dominates the world, is increasingly showing a devastated and unsustainable state of decay. Some economists praise privatization and advocate long live privatization, which is not in keeping with the trend of history and also runs counter to the fundamental interests and aspirations of hundreds of millions of people, and is doomed to be unworkable. Under the strong leadership of the party, the Chinese people are advancing the development of Chinese-style modernization with each passing day, and this is the general trend of human social development.
However, there are a few economists and former officials who have done the opposite. Their eyes are always looking backwards, to the west. A scholar asked: It has been 5,000 years since human society, but has the progress of these several thousand years been created by private ownership or by public ownership? Have the countries led by the Soviet Union succeeded or failed in the large-scale experiment of the public economic system on a global scale? Why do we still struggle with this question? This scholar is both roundabout and frightening, but in fact he means nothing more than to say: 5,000 years of human wealth and progress are created by private ownership, and the merits of private ownership are so great that private ownership should be allowed to rule forever. Then, we have to ask that in the long feudal society before Western capitalism, social wealth and progress could only be created by the private ownership dominated by feudal landlords and lords, and then the private economic system controlled by feudal landlords and aristocrats would last for generations. The revolution of the new bourgeoisie is reactionary, it is turning back the clock of history, and it is creating a catastrophe for mankind. What an absurd logic! Lifting a stone and shooting themselves in the foot, perhaps they did not expect.
In fact, ownership can bind or liberate the productive forces of society, but it is not the same as the productive forces themselves. The most powerful and active productive force is people. It is always the tens of millions of laborers who promote the development of social productive forces and the progress of human society.
Today, more than 70 years after the establishment of the socialist system on the mainland, they still dream of private ownership dominating the world, and this is the real countercurrent and the reversal of history. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Japanese-American scholar Fukuyama wrote a book entitled "The End of History", which was overjoyed to see the defeat of the Soviet Union, believing that history would end on the capitalist system in the United States and Europe, and capitalism would be overjoyed. However, it was only after Fukuyama observed and studied the vigorous vitality of the development and progress of socialism with Chinese characteristics and the rise of a number of emerging economies in the world that he realized that his conclusion was wrong, that history has not ended, and will never end, and that private ownership and capitalism cannot be passed down forever.
As for the fact that some economists believe that the global experiment of public ownership has failed and that they should retreat to the road of capitalist privatization, this is also a prominent manifestation of their ideological confusion. First of all, did the former socialist countries led by the Soviet Union fail in implementing public ownership? This conclusion is still too early. In addition to the mainland, there are also Vietnam, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Laos, Cuba, and other countries that have been holding high the banner of socialism unyieldingly, and the vast number of emerging economies in the third world have taken the initiative to develop economic, cultural, and scientific and technological cooperation with the mainland, and to learn from the mainland's successful experience in reform and opening up. These great achievements and realities, you have written them off, and they are all put into the big box of the failures you made?
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Marxism of the Chinese and contemporary times is the banner guiding the Chinese-style modernization, and it has the theoretical character of advancing with the times, constantly absorbing new ideas and new plans from the practice of China's reform, opening up and construction, and leading the people of the whole country step by step towards the great rejuvenation of the nation. However, some economists have taken up the words of the long-deceased economist many years ago and distorted them, calling for breaking through the theoretical shackles of Marxism. He said: In the 100-year historical experiment of transforming society carried out in the 20 th century, mankind has clearly seen that no matter how serious and beautiful the intentions are, following the path of 1789 (French Revolution) - 1871 (Paris Commune) - 1917 (October Revolution) will not be the kingdom of heaven on earth that people once promised, but only great catastrophe and great retrogression. Therefore, they vowed to carry out "a relatively thorough ideological enlightenment movement," and their sharp edge was directed at the socialist ideology guided by Marxism, at the Marxist theory of labor value and the theory of surplus value, and at the fundamental purpose of "abolishing private ownership" proclaimed in the "Communist Manifesto." They believe that all revolutions are wrong, that the historical line from the French Revolution to the Chinese Revolution is a dead end to crony capitalism, and that only by implementing a market economy under the economic and political system of total privatization in accordance with the American beacon in their minds is the way out and can they reach their ideal kingdom of heaven. These fallacies are not worth refuting at all, I just want to say one thing: no matter how crazy the obsession of the liberal public intellectuals to enlighten the Chinese people is, in the end, it is a grasshopper shaking the tree, which is ridiculous!
(iv)
While questioning and negating the mainland's basic economic system, a small number of economists also have a bizarre theory, that is, they accuse the mainland government of not doing enough to "keep its head open" and "nurture obscurity," accuse the so-called "wolf warrior diplomacy," and advocate kneeling down to the United States for diplomacy. They say, why can't exports? Why is China and the United States at loggerheads? It is because of the huge difference between the three views of China and the United States, or the huge divergence of the three views, for example, we have proposed the "great changes in a century," the "Belt and Road Initiative," and the "World Development Initiative," all of which the United States does not like and oppose. All this fully shows that they look like servants acting in the face of US hegemony.
As everyone knows, since the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and the United States, the mainland party and government have always attached importance to Sino-US relations, regarded Sino-US relations as one of the most important bilateral relations in the world, and have always actively developed economic and trade exchanges and various cooperation with the United States on the premise of safeguarding national sovereignty and security and safeguarding the country's core interests. General Secretary Xi Jinping has repeatedly told US leaders that we have a thousand and 10,000 reasons to do a good job in China-US relations, and we should not do anything bad about China-US relations. The Chinese government has exercised the greatest restraint in suppressing US hegemony, and at the same time insisted on seeking cooperation through struggle and emphasizing win-win cooperation. However, the United States, as the world's number one power, in order to maintain its hegemonic position, has unscrupulously suppressed China's rise and prevented China's development, which is determined by its imperialist nature. It believes that China is the only country in the world that has both the ability and the willingness to replace the status of the number one power of US imperialism, so it has launched a comprehensive trade war, a science and technology war, and a financial war against China, enlisting a group of allies to contain China, and constantly provoking incidents in China's core interests such as the Taiwan Strait, the South China Sea, the East China Sea, Tibet, and Xinjiang. They weaponize trade issues and reduce trade between China and the United States, which is a crazy act that harms others and does not benefit themselves. Although this has caused some difficulties in the mainland's economic development, the United States has also "killed 1,000 enemies and damaged 800 of its own enemies." In response to the various wars launched by the United States, the mainland government has calmly responded and taken various major measures to accelerate innovation and development, strive to master the core science and technology that is stuck in the neck, and expand economic cooperation with the Belt and Road Initiative and countries in the Global South. History has proven and will continue to prove that there is no way out for kneeling down to beauty and lowering beauty, or even a dead end. Even if you change your three views and completely converge with the political and economic systems of the United States, you will not be able to change the situation in which the United States suppresses China. Isn't Russia's lesson still clear and profound?
Under the strong leadership of the CPC Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core, we are full of confidence that we will be able to overcome all kinds of difficulties, eliminate all kinds of interference, and successfully promote the development of Chinese-style modernization.