1.10.08

美七千億救市措施——資本主義朝向社會主義的徵兆

奉行資本主義的美國面對嚴重經濟衰退,政府不得不放棄堅守的自由主義原則而主張以政府名義挽救陷於危難的經濟困局。美國政府認為,若不及時投放巨額金錢扶持疲弱壞帳的企業、回購棄置的資產,美國社會和國民將面對重大逆境。這種巨額向社會注資的舉動,已經有很強烈的社會主義的政府介入社會的意味。

政府介入也是部分資本主義經濟學派所主張的,但政府的介入,主要在於運用財金手段調節市場、保持交易自由,著眼點不在「社會」。然而今次美國提出前所未有的注資行動,政府介入的著眼點不但從金融市場角度出發,同時無可避免地開始滲雜維繫社會的用意。

今次美國數家大型跨國公司和投資銀行相繼在短期內破產或停止業務,顯示了私人資本集中和資本崩潰對全社會甚至全球的影響,同時暴露了資本主義的矛盾。如果循這樣的資本發展去看,巨額資本虧空的流弊所逼使政府提出挽救社會的手段,這已是一種強烈的由資本主義向社會主義發展的徵兆。當然,現時仍無法說明美國離社會主義尚有多少距離,但即使強盛如美國的資本主義,也無法不面對資本所帶來的全社會問題,社會主義的實現是可以預見的。

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agree,John Gray, professor at the London School of Economics, wrote in the London paper The Observer: "Here is a historic geopolitical shift, in which the balance of power in the world is being altered irrevocably.

"The era of American global leadership, reaching back to the Second World War, is over... The American free-market creed has self-destructed while countries that retained overall control of markets have been vindicated."

"In a change as far-reaching in its implications as the fall of the Soviet Union, an entire model of government and the economy has collapsed.

"How symbolic that Chinese astronauts take a spacewalk while the US Treasury Secretary is on his knees."

中國經濟走自己路,證明是正確的

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I really like this quote: "The American free-market creed has self-destructed while countries that retained overall control of markets have been vindicated."

Really like this. The power of conflict internalized within the nature of capitalism is hard to conceal or even eradicate. The intervention of government or large-scale artifical control over society could not be contradicated under spontaneous social movement.