The Analysis Of David Miller's "Cooperative Market Socialism"

As an important trend of thought in the world socialist movement,market socialism has gone through more than 80 years of development from the birth of the "Lange pattern" to the "market-led market socialism" pattern.This trend of thought keeps pace with the changes of the times and carries out the innovation of theoretical models.Among them,the model of cooperative market socialism is one of the typical representatives of the "market-oriented market socialism" model.David Miller,as one of the famous left-wing theoreticians in the UK,actively committed to the integration of market economy and socialism under the political background of the policy adjustment of the Labor Party in the UK,and put forward the cooperative socialist market socialism model.This article mainly introduces David Miller's cooperative social theory of market socialism from four aspects.The first part introduces the domestic and foreign research status quo and the research status quo of the socialist cooperative market socialism and its related background,mainly including the related academic background and social background of the characters.The second part in-depth analysis of the core content of the cooperative system of market socialism.This section mainly includes the justification of the existence of the market,self-managing workers' cooperatives,public investment for macro-control,incentive mechanisms of technological innovation,and pursuit of core values of social justice.The justification of the existence of the market is mainly analysed from the four aspects: the promotion of freedom,the improvement of efficiency,the guarantee of welfare,and the expansion of democracy.The workers' cooperatives are democratically managed,and each worker has the right to decide any matter of the enterprise.Public investment institutions are subject to macro-control by the state and provide operating funds for cooperatives;the profits of cooperatives are the source of workers' wages,and only by continuous technological innovation can workers ensure the continuous development of enterprises and ensure their own sources of income.The core essential of the cooperative market socialism is to achieve the socialist value goal through the means of market economy.The third part makes a comprehensive evaluation of the cooperative system market socialism.It mainly analyzes its position in the market socialist ideological trend,its position in various socialist schools,as well as its own value and defects.Cooperative market socialism is a typical model of market socialism.It provides a new path and inspiration for the development of socialism.The fourth part compares the cooperative system market socialism with the socialist market economy with Chinese characteristics,and compares and analyzes the important enlightenment of the cooperative system market socialism to the socialist market economy with Chinese characteristics.The major difference between the two lies in the following: the cooperative system market socialism is based on the highly developed market economy of the developed capitalist countries,and is an economic development model that the developed capitalist countries can take to reach the socialist road;the socialist market economy with Chinese characteristics is based on the national conditions at the primary stage of socialism in our country,and its economic development is in an imbalanced state.The similarities between the two are that they both regard the market as a means of economic development,and they all regard freedom,democracy,equality and justice as their core values.Cooperative market socialism also provides reference for the socialist market economy with Chinese characteristics and has positive significance.