Chapter 42 Dialectical Analysis of Western Neoliberalism Economics

Do you also have your own views on Western neoliberal economics? In the 28 years of China's reform and opening up, there have been three major debates in the middle. Judging from the issues raised in the major debates, it involves the objective evaluation of neoliberal economics.To be honest, what else can we learn from neo-liberal economics in our reform from a planned economy to a market economy?Therefore, a realistic analysis of Western neo-liberal economics is required. For example, the setting of "economic man" in Western neoliberal economics is to assume that human nature is selfish and that everyone pays attention to their own interests. I think it has theoretical value.The starting point of our reform is the starting point of its theory.The success of our 28 years of reform and opening up is due to the transformation from "political man" to "economic man".We should remember that during the exploration from the founding of New China to the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee, we almost trained the people of the whole country to become "political people."With the reform and opening up, everyone is working hard for their own economic interests. From the perspective of economic interests, it has stimulated people's creativity and enthusiasm to promote economic development, create social wealth, and obtain their own economic benefits from it. Benefit.Only by caring about one's own economic interests can one mobilize people's enthusiasm and devote themselves to creating social wealth. Doesn't the practice of reform and opening up prove this point?

For another example, Western neoliberal economics proposes complete informatization.Stand for complete disclosure of information and complete competition.I think that's exactly where we should be today.Our information monopoly today is too strong, and the asymmetry is too great.There are also large corporate monopoly and various public resource monopoly. We develop a market economy to break this monopoly, encourage free competition, and give people a chance for fair competition.Therefore, the information must be made public and cannot be manipulated in a black box.Information disclosure is good for promoting fair competition.

For another example, Western neoliberal economics proposes to minimize the role of the government.This is the embodiment of Western humanism in the economic field, which involves respect for individual ability and the limitation of government power.For example, human creativity, innovation ability, personality development, individual independent thinking, including the protection of individual property rights, are the most important in developing a market economy.Now we are doing everything possible to mobilize and bring out the role of people, their enthusiasm and creativity, and minimize the government's intervention in the micro-economy.Moreover, criticize and supervise the functions of the government.This is conducive to promoting economic and social development.I think this is also what is needed for reform, and it is also indispensable for market-oriented reform.Of course, we still need to strengthen the government's macro-control of the economy, not the absolute minimum of the government.Because our territory is too large, the population is too large, and there are thousands of differences, a certain organizational system is still necessary.

But we can master the spirit of this theory and use it for us.This is still beneficial to our reform. However, although Western neoliberal economics has its side to learn from, it also has negative things. Those things are incompatible with our socialism with Chinese characteristics, so we still need to rebuild our humanistic spirit.I said that "economic man" is more advanced than "political man", but "economic man" is not the ideal goal we are pursuing. What we pursue is the comprehensive and free development of human beings, so I propose a concept of "harmonious man".What we want are "harmonious people", people who are compatible with the comprehensive and free development of people required by a harmonious society. "Economic man" is self-centered, money-oriented, and pursues material supremacy, consumption supremacy, and money is omnipotent, which is not desirable.What we call a "harmonious person" with comprehensive and free development should not only create material wealth, but also create spiritual wealth.He is a man of conviction, honesty, reason, philanthropy, and love.He can achieve harmony between man and society, man and nature, man and man, and even his own physical and mental harmony.Why are there more and more mental illnesses now?It means that the self is not in harmony, and it is difficult for oneself to live with oneself.Impetuous, full of complaints, a lot of mental pressure, easy to get depression.So I think that in order to transform from an "economic man" into a "harmonious man", we Chinese need a reconstruction of the humanistic spirit.We want to carry forward the spirit of traditional Chinese culture and carry out an enlightenment movement similar to the European Renaissance to spread our outlook on life and values, establish concepts of justice, equality, democracy, freedom, fraternity, and human rights, and improve The overall quality of people calls for people's conscience, and handles the relationship between people, the relationship between man and nature, and the relationship between man and society.We cannot blindly pursue personal material enjoyment, otherwise, the resources of the earth are limited, and 20 earths are not enough for us to squander.