Comparative Study Of The Socialist Market Economy And Market Socialism

Market socialism, as a genre of western Marxism, breaks through the traditionalthinking of the theory of market and socialism mutex, and subverts the traditionalpoint of view that socialism can only make the planned economy. This coincides withthe Chinese socialist market economy theory. Therefore, investigating the theory oftwo different connotation and characteristics and analysing the time correlations andmain differences of the two theories deeply, has great theoretical and realisticsignificance to deepen the reformation,develop and perfect socialist market economyin our country.Market socialism tries to combine public ownerships of the means of productionand the market mechanism. It asserts to split the allocation of resources and the socialsystem, take the market as the leading factor, national macroeconomic regulation andcontrol as the auxiliary, regard efficiency, equality and freedom as the value goal ofthe society. Our country socialist market economy is the great initiative of marketwith the organic combination of socialism. It takes public ownership as the foundationof the market economic activities, attaches great importance to the role of the nationalmacroeconomic regulation and control, in order to realize the common prosperity forthe development goals. It has both the general property of market economy, combineswith the basic social system in our country, and has its own distinct characteristics.The socialist market economy and market socialism has relevance. Both arebased on criticism of the market capitalism and the planned socialism, attach greatimportance to the role of market in resource allocation, think the market is the bestway to realize efficiency, and pay attention to the unity of efficiency and fairness.However, there are obvious differences in the theory origin, operation mechanism,value goal and implementation degree between them. Time correlation between thetwo, provides the possibility for the socialist market economy from reasonableelements of market socialism, and their differences are revealed to us, thedevelopment of the socialist market economy must overcome the shortcomings ofmarket socialism, to transcend it.The socialist market economic theory absorbs the reasonable factors of marketsocialism, such as attaching great importance to the national macroeconomicregulation and control, strengthening the democratic management, paying attention to the unity of equality and efficiency in the process of the formation and developments.And in theory, the basic economic system and forms for realizing public ownershiphas realized the transcendence of market socialism. Further development andimprovement of socialist market economy still need to pay attention to marketsocialism positive and reasonable factors, in order to improve the market price system,to improve the supply and demand and competition mechanism, to perfect the incomedistribution system, to establish the modern enterprise property right system, totransform government function.