The Comparison And Enlightenment Of Two State View-New Liberalism And Conservative-liberalism

Sense of nation has been a focus of contemporary western political practices and theories. At the turn of19th and20th centuries, western capitalist countries transited from capitalism period to monopolistic capitalism period. For the appearance of flaws in its laissez-faire principle and the broken of "miracle" that the economic balance and self-sufficiency can be depended on the markets’spontaneous orders, the passive sense of nation in classical liberalism was criticized. New liberalism, born of needs in monopolistic capitalism, asserted state intervention of economy and social life and abandoned the original laissez-faire principle of classical liberalism, It(?)ted an active sense of nation whose feature is state intervention. With the unveiling of Great Depression and Keynesianism, such active sense of nation, new liberalism, began to be popular among western countries, which promoted their economic development after wars.However, defects in policies, state intervention and welfare state, of western countries began to emerge in the1960s and1970s. And the active sense of nation advocated by new liberalism was doubted. Taking the opportunity of economic crisis, conservative-liberalism started to take precedence in the argument on state of nation with new liberalism. Conservative-liberalism revived and developed classical liberalism that opposed state intervention and asserted freedom in society and market economy. It advocated a passive sense of nation, contrary to new liberalism----the active sense of nation. Was it necessary to recur to state intervention? What are the range and the means of state intervention? The new liberalism and conservative-liberalism opened up differences around sense of nation.From late1970s until now, economic system reform in our country has already lasted for30years. Especially the foundation of market economy system in1990s, the political and economic thought started to spread into our country. The argument on sense of nation among western countries has led a great impact on our country. It has both advantages and disadvantages to the socialist constructions of policies and theories of our country. Thus to make a deeper research on the arguments between western new liberalism and conservative-liberalism to reveal the nature of their debates has significant theoretical and realistic meanings. It is good to the healthy development of socialist constructions, the persistence of taking the socialist road with Chinese characteristics and the enrichment and development of Marxism theory. Their differences can also provide to our country some useful reference and experience.