The Research On The Basic Problems Of Socialist Market Economy Theory’s Popularization

In1992, Deng Xiaoping’s "Southern Talk" and the14th National Congress of CPC, which established the socialist market economic system model, marked the birth of theory of socialist market economy. The report of the14th National Congress of CPC put forward the headline that "Economic system reform aims to adhere to public ownership and distribution according to work as the main body and other economic sectors and distribution for added, on the basis of establishing and perfecting the socialist market economic system"."The socialist market economic system is component of socialist basic system.’In the year of2013,"Decision of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on several major issues of comprehensively deepen reform" made a major innovation of the socialist market economy theory. It pointed out that comprehensively deepen the overall goal of the reform is to improve and develop the socialist system with Chinese characteristics:The aim is to push on the modernization of the national management system and management ability. We adhere to the reform direction of socialist market economy as the starting point and foothold so as to promote social fairness and justice and to improve people’s welfare. As Comrade Liu Yunshan wrote: comprehensively deepen reform involves the areas of economic, political, cultural, social and ecological civilization systems which has great relationship with the construction system reform of Communist Party of China. Direction problem is very important. What kind of reform direction we insist on will determine the nature of the reform and the final success or failure.The theory of socialist theoretical system with Chinese characteristics can be regarded as one of the most important theoretical achievements of the great practice of reforming and opening up in China. The reasons that it takes the leading position are described as "Proposing the reforming goal of establishing a socialist market economic system which is a great theory and practical innovation of our party in the process of building socialism with Chinese characteristics and it solves a major problem which other socialist countries have yet found few solutions for a long time." For more than20years, this significant innovation of Chinese Marxism brings profound changes in the aspects of China’s economy, politics, culture, social management, ecological civilization and CPC’s construction. The theory are acknowledged universally for its great value achievement with its unprecedented effects.Over the past20years, the socialist market economy theory has instructed Chinese people in the process of taking part in the practice of socialist market economy and it "makes Chinese people’s life a historic leap from sufficient living to comparatively well-off and China GDP ranks the second position among the countries. It also arouses the initiative of millions of Chinese people and promotes social productive forces greatly and enhances the CPC’s and China’s vitality deeply."[22]It is obvious that the socialist market economy has much affected the Chinese’s people in real life. However, in the field of academics, there are few studies on the basic problems of the socialist market economy theory’s popularization. It is quite clear that the academic research in this field is not correspond to the developing status of socialist market economy practice which is extremely important to the road of socialism with Chinese characteristics that includes its exploration of roadmap, theory innovation and systematic construction.Based on the deficiencies or insufficiencies of the present studies, efforts must be taken on the theory development necessity of socialism with Chinese characteristics. This paper, using the ways of thinking of the historical materialism of Marxism,identifies the main logic idea that market economy may well service the socialism and come to the conclusions, which combines the theory research and empirical investigation together, as the analyses to some basic problems of the socialist market theory popularization. These problems include the fundamental purpose of the socialist market economy’s construction and development, the necessity of socialist market economy theory popularization, the status of popularization, and which problems affect the popularization, and the basic requirements to realize its popularization.The dissertation is divided into six chapters and the main points are as follows:Chapter1:Introduction intends to introduce the purpose and significance of the topic "The basic problems of socialist market economy theory popularization". It covers the existing research reviews, research methods, academic techniques, and the innovative points as well. This paper argues that there is a dialectical unity between the socialist market economy and people’s social life and production practice. Studying the basic problems of socialist market economy theory’s popularization has two folds significance. Firstly, it extends the fundamental research. As we known that the research of Marxism’s popularization is very popular in recent years. The necessity, importance, and paths have already been well-studied on the view of macroscopic system. As the socialist market economy theory becomes an important part of Chinese Marxism, it is widely believed that the popularization of this theory is also one of the integral components of Marxism. This paper leads the study to the microcosmos, thus, it fills the gap in the research on these issues with some certain extent. Secondly, it has some theoretical reference value to the current deepening reforms in all-round way. The third Plenary Session of18th Central Committee suggested that deepening reforms in all-round way must adhere to the direction of socialist market economy, which means that market-oriented economic reforming must serve the maintaining of the systems, theory and the road of socialism with Chinese characteristics. These issues are very clear in theory, but there are still some problems which people are not satisfied and cannot accept in practice, or even deviation of the theory itself. Thus it is necessary to clarify some basic problems which can promote people’s identifications toward the theory and take an active part in the practice of socialist market economy so as to promote the theory’s development in turn. The study is helpful to understand and self-realize to the general objective of deepening reforming, that is "Improve and develop the Socialist system with Chinese characteristics, and promote the modernization of national governance systems and capacity". Also the study has certain reference value to help to resolve many current social issues. This paper takes the dialectical materialism and historical materialism as a basis method, then together with the basic principles of Marxism, economics, theory of socialist market economy, ideological and political education, sociology, statistics and other multidisciplinary knowledge. What’s more, an anonymous questionnaire will be used in the paper to analyze the theory and practical obstacles of the socialist market economy theory’s popularization and then explore the basic realization conditions of socialist market economy theory. By searching the title of "socialist market economy theory’s popularization", we found that only1paper which is written by Chang Jingsha and partners which is directly related with this topic. There are no any more books and thesis of doctorate or master’s degrees similar to this topic. But a large amount of research fruits about socialist market economy have been successfully gained, and a majority of them mainly discuss the history, the characteristics and the theories of the socialist market economy. All these fruits provide some basis to this paper. There are three main innovations in this paper:firstly, studying on the socialist market economy theory’s popularization could open a new perspective for us to study Marxism popularization. Secondly, the author puts forward a series of innovative theoretical perspectives which can help the researches of the socialist market economy theory’s popularization. For example:there exists a dialectical unity between socialist market economy theory-practice and public demands; China’s economic system reform shares a same target system with dialectical unity; it should be base on "Marxism" and absorb the essence of the "Western achievements" to make a more perfect theory of the socialist market economy etc. Thirdly, the author uses the method of empirical research to investigate questions on the base of the reliable first-hand information, which hasn’t been found in relative study in the field of academy.Chapter2:This chapter elaborate socialist market economy theory and its history of popularization. This section first cards on the generations of collective leadership in our country for the exploration of socialist economic system, then it outlines the main elements of the socialist market economy’s theory, which includes its choosing history, aim and nature, theoretical basis and basic frame. At the same time, this chapter stresses that the objective and nature of our economic system is the heart and soul of this theory, and points out that the scholars should deepen the study. Both the probing into the socialist construction laws over the past20-years and the great achievements of socialist construction in our country reveals that the socialist market economy brings the people’s production and lives upgrades, changes people’s ways of thinking and acting and then enhances the nation’s self-esteem and self-confidence level in the world. Socialist market economy theory’s popularization refers to the process and results which the theory of socialist market economy affect the public brings, it includes receiving public attention, cognition, identification, application, reaction, systematic grasping, innovation, development and many other aspects. In a word, the author divides the socialist market economy theory popularization into three levels:"getting to know, keeping in mind, and coming into practice ". Up to now, socialist market economy theory’s popularization has gone through three stages, that is:The less popularization stage when famous scholars and the highest levels of decision-making begins the theoretical exploration; Theoretical enlightenment stage when the socialist economic market theory is gradually accepted by mass; The influence of comprehensive practice stage when the pattern of resource configuration changes and the socialist market economic system running quickly infiltrated to the mass production and living.Chapter3:Analyze the current situations of socialist market economy theory’s popularization. This paper adopts empirical research methods, and by making a survey of a certain kind of people including workers, farmers and college’s students in Guangdong, Jiangxi, Hubei, Henan, Shaanxi, Hebei, Jilin, it is of great significance for people to understand the public’s community awareness, recognition, evaluation, demands of socialist market economy conditions. According to the Survey, we found that nearly90%persons has initially acknowledged about the socialist market economy. They agree that socialist market economy has improved people’s livelihood and consider that the accomplishments are much more than the problems. Moreover, Division between rich and poor, the Government’s unfair judgment and lacking moral integrity rank the first three digits of the problems. The public believes depend on the governmental efforts, the academia’s works and the public education, it can effectively improve the present situations; and93.1%of the people wish for further reform to benefit the public, this indicates that we should insist on advocating labor distribution in order to protect the core interests of the working masses. Then from the perspective of ways of obtaining knowledge:by media such as television or internet is the main channel for public to understand socialist market economy information, and there are another57.4%of college students said that their cognitive theories of knowledge and information were mainly gained through ideological and political lessons. Overall, the public can not acknowledge the efficiency that the socialist market economy brings, they also holds an obscure awareness of the purpose of socialist market economy; what’s worse, some unsolved problems even lead people to doubt about the firmness of the social system that they stuck to in the past. From the comparison of the cognitive status between college students and the general public, we can conclude that college students is the effective strength to promote socialist market economy theory.Chapter4:Analyze on theory obstacles about promoting socialist market economy theory’s popularization. It is noted in the paper that these problems, which prevent people from cognition the socialist market economy, are partly caused by the need to improve the theory and its routes of transmission. These include:first of all, socialist market economy theory itself needs to further clarify the important category, consolidate theoretical foundation, and strengthen the destination on China’s economic system reform. Secondly, misunderstand about "cat theory" and "Southern talk" leads to mistakenly using economic development tools as economic development purposes, which prevents the peoples’ comprehension on the cognition of relating to the improvement of the Socialist system. Thirdly, western thoughts represented by the neo-Iiberal destruct the targets of China’s economic system reform and even disrupt public judgment on the reform direction. The existence of these problems makes the public difficult to understand some basic issues around them.Chapter5:Analyze the real resistances of socialist market economy theory popularization. This paper argues that the theory which can bring beneficial results to the people is the foundation of its popularization. Combined with the survey results, the author pointed out those real resistances which prevent the people from recognition, and applying the socialist market economy’s popularization are mainly from the followings:in the first place, during the process of the income gaps rapidly widening, the public income growth lags behind and thus makes them depressed; in the second place, corruption affects public’s confidence to the ruling party and the Government under the market economic environment; in the third place, market economy’s nature of chasing for more benefit collapse traditional morality and integrity, thus, it adversely affects people’s material and spiritual life; in the fourth place, confronting with the loss of state assets, it is supposed that during the process of state-owned enterprises reform, the public’s status as masters of society will be hit.Chapter6:Discus about the basic conditions of realization on making socialist market economy theory’s popular. This paper argues that we must adhere to the principle of wholeness, and using diverse forms to make socialist market economy theory renowned to the public. The author proposes some useful ways including:firstly, it is affirmative that the theory should keep pace with the Socialist market economy and should be continually improved in the process of responding to the reform issues. Secondly, we must restrain "wild nature" of market economy from Socialist system, then diminish the gap between conditions of sollen and sein and enhance the public recognition of the socialist market economy theory. Thirdly, we should follow the general principles of education, advocacy, spreadnization and foster multi-level themes, but the most effective measure is to spread socialist market economy theory by using the ways of the multi-level media and popularization.