The Contemporary Western Market Socialism And Its Enlightenments To The Socialism With Chinese Characteristics

Since Deng Xiaoping put forward the slogans and scientific propositions of building the socialism with Chinese characteristics, socialism with Chinese characteristics has walked through nearly thirty years. In many aspects, it has formed its own unique propositions. But that it has characteristics does not mean that it is perfect. In fact, till now, as a theory which is in the generation, socialism with Chinese characteristics is still far from absolutely good, it still needs to explore in practice, and it also needs to learn from other outstanding civilization achievements such as market socialism.Market socialism is a socialism ideological trend which initiated in the 20-30 age of the 20th century, it mainly distributes in some developed capitalist countries, such as the UK, America, Japanese, and so on. It regards surmounting the capitalism and traditional socialism as its goal, emphasizes the indispensable function of the market in the socialist economy construction, advocates the foundational status of the market in the economy, and expects to realize some socialism values,such as social fairness, equity , democracy. As an important theory school in the socialism movement, market socialism has a history of nearly one hundred years. It does not fade after one hundred years, which indicates its vitality. The reflection of the above is that market socialism has the valuable intrinsic quality, which should arouse the interests of the educational world.Market socialism absorbs advantages of various schools. The western economist and the society improvement person's viewpoint are the theory resources of early market socialism. Socialist economy reform, western cooperative society economy and empirical materials of capitalist economy development are the three large theory resources of contemporary market socialism. It has experienced the development phase from seed to high tide, then arrives at the ebb tide. At the high tide time, it forms Romer's Negotiable Securities market socialism, Schweickart's Economic Democracy market socialism, Miller's Cooperation System market socialism, and Makoto Itoh's Decentralised and Democratic market socialism. But after marching into the 21st century, market socialism fell into the bottom glade. According to the current development momentum of market socialism, as well as the situation of world socialist movement, in the short term, there is little possibility for foreign market socialism to recover. But in the long run, we can not exclude its revival.There are not only similarities, but also essential differences between market socialism and Chinese characteristic socialism. Market socialism held critical attitudes on capitalism, urged socialist road, and advocated the union between socialism and market economy, all of which have positive significance to the development of scientific socialism. But market socialism broke away from practice and the masses, it eventually fell into idle dream. However, whether as experience or lesson, market socialism plays an important role on perfecting Chinese characteristic socialism from theory and practice. Firstly, it is beneficial for us to walk along the socialist road steadfastly. The sharp critique of market socialism to the Soviet Model and capitalism enlightens us that socialism is the only choice. Secondly, developing and perfecting socialist market economy need to reference to market socialism. Through the arguments of market socialism, we can conclude that market economy is the only path to socialism, national macro-control is the guarantee to the well-ordered development of socialist market economy, and the mixed ownership economy is the effective realization for socialist ownership form. Thirdly, developing socialist political civilization also needs to learn the fine quality of market socialism. We should not only focus on political democracy, but also not ignore economic democracy. While developing the economy, social fairness and justice can also not be ignored. Finally, market socialism has important implications to the development of socialist ecological civilization. It enlightens us that capitalist mode of production and consumption patterns are unsustainable, so we should avoid capitalism's old footsteps; economic democracy is the guarantee of sound ecology, and profit sharing is the cornerstone of the socialistic ecological civilization.Socialism with Chinese characteristics has been ahead of market socialism in many aspects especially in the practice, if we can learn successful experiences and lessons from market socialism and other foreign socialist schools, Chinese characteristic socialism will play a constructive role in leading the renaissance of the world socialist movement. In conclusion, socialism with Chinese characteristics and market socialism should complement each other, and both of each should get together for the common development, and try hard for the revival of the socialism.