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The Way Out for China (Part XXVII): In Comparison to the "China
Model", the U.S. and EU Democratic Systems Ensure Economic Development
With Social Equity -- by Wei Jingsheng
标题： 《中国的出路》之二十七：与“中国模式”相比，美欧的民主制度保证经济发展下的社会公平 -- 魏京生
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The
Way Out for China (Part XXVII): In Comparison to the "China Model",
the U.S. and EU Democratic Systems Ensure Economic Development With Social
Equity
--
by Wei Jingsheng
In
the previous sections, we talked about the wrongs of the economic development
strategy in China since the Deng Xiaoping era. The so called "let some people get rich first"
economy which is oriented toward export, is really a strategy of exploiting
workers cruelly while letting a few get extremely rich quickly, a strategy that
shares the fruit of this exploitation with the Western big business in an
effort to buy them out and thus encourage them to lobby the Western governments
for the dictatorial government in China.
This development model has been boasted as the "China Model"
by the Western big businesses.
However, this model did not really bring the economic take-off in China. Instead, it has come to a dead
end. The poor people resulting
from this sick model are becoming an obstacle or stumbling block to the
economic and social development in China.
Will
the reform of the economic system to be able to break this bottleneck? Certainly not. That is because the abnormal situation
of the Chinese economy is caused by the political abnormality in China. Normal development should let the whole
society receive the advantage of development in a balanced way as the productivity
capacity grows. As the wages grow,
the profits increase, welfare improves, and education and health care, etc.
will simultaneously increase as well.
The increase of the social demand is the original driving force behind
economic development, so the growth of production capacity need not worry about
finding the appropriate markets.
This is true for a big economy in a normal development pattern.
The
development of the United States in the past two hundred years is a typical
example. When the development of
European countries reached a certain level, it significantly felt the
insufficiency of the local markets.
The wars in Europe in the last four hundred years were almost all due to
fights for the market. Or, as
famously expressed by Adolf Hitler as Lebensraum, a fight for habitat or living
space. After World War II in order
to expand their markets Europeans started the European Community, now developed
into the European Union. Its
essence is to share the larger market instead of going to war. With the push from the United States,
the World Trade Organization began aiming to expand a free market in the world
by free trade, with the intention of a great expansion of the world market to
eliminate the root causes of the war.
Europe's
common market has reached its goal.
Their joint development has eliminated the original driving force behind
the wars in Europe. Now, if
someone tells you that a war has just broken out between Germany and France,
you will immediately check the calendar to make sure that it is not April
Fool's Day. As we all know, such
an event is now impossible.
Expanded markets not only brought peace, but also a well performing
economy, and science and technology development in the European countries. This remarkable transformation makes
everyone envy them for being able to heal the wounds of war in only half a
century, and even leap into a much more prosperous and advanced stage than
before the war. The development of
Europe has also brought opportunities in the USA for further development. The rapidly expanding European market
is a strong driving force for sustainable development in the US economy.
Why
does Europe also bring opportunities to the United States? Why was Europe's own development so
fast? It is because Europe carried
out a strategy of sharing the wealth with its people during its economic
recovery and development period.
As people were getting rich the market expanded, thus giving production
a momentum for growth. When the
production grew, it represented the expansion of the consumer market. As the market expanded, so did the
demand for an expansion of production.
If Europe and the United States had also adopted that "let some
people get rich first" policy to concentrate the wealth in the hands of a
few for money laundering or financial speculation, it would not have this
half-century of rapid and balanced development.
Why
was the development of Europe and the U.S. a fair distribution of
development? Because of the
democratic governments they have.
People have the right to govern politicians. If the politicians become disobedient to the people, the
people will vote them out. This
authority has been very clear.
People will not allow an unfair distribution. Capitalists like the so-called fair market most, which is
the fairness to make money. This
is the law of the market economy.
However, people demand not just a fair market, but also fairness to the
people. The market should serve
the people and mankind, not the other way around. Humankind should not be a slave to the market and the
capitalists.
When
there is no fairness in the market, the economic development loses its
power. To this day, we know that
fairness allows an economic model which is the most likely to encourage people
to work hard and with passion.
Without social equality, the markets and the powerful capitalists
certainly would turn all the workers into wretches less than slaves. The capitalists will drain the blood
and sweat of workers, regardless of their lives. This is not wrong from these capitalists' minds: the
function of the capital and capitalists in the market is to make money, not
philanthropy. The real problem is
that today's capitalists are too shortsighted, and want to make money without
doing work. They have forgotten
that their wealth is based on the population's desire and ability to pay for
commodities. Therefore, we need an
authority outside of this market to maintain a fairness for mankind. Otherwise, the society will be
difficult to maintain.
As
we know by now, the democratic system is the most effective system in
maintaining the social justice. As
the Chinese poem says: the river ducks know the arrival of the Spring from the
warming water. Most of the people
who live at the bottom of the society know most accurately if life is fair or
not. While surveys and statistical
data can be cheated and manipulated by money, the feelings of the people cannot
be bought. Ultimately, politics is
in the control of the people, and politics has to serve the people. The vote is much more honest than empty
slogans. Although capitalists
always have the means to buy off politicians, sometimes it is hard for them to
pretend. Capitalists can never buy
most of the people, without granting them fair wages and benefits. Since the political lives of the
politicians are in the hands of the people, the buy-outs of the capitalists can
only have a limited effect, and it is hard to harm the fundamental interests of
the people.
Every
day, the Chinese rulers are chanting their slogan of "serving the
people". But why do we only
see the people serving them? It is
because the fates of these politicians are not in the control of our
people. In China, politics is the
politics of the minority, who try to self-reproduce. Although it is not heredity by bloodline, it is still a
succession of gangs. When the
public power becomes the private property of that gang, who would care about
people's rights and interests?
This policy of the political system certainly will help their own
"to get rich first" in the short run, but it is impossible to give
the opportunities of prosperity to all the people. Therefore, the economic policies of Deng Xiaoping are the
inevitable result of an autocratic regime. For these Chinese politicians and capitalists, they do not
really need to worry about social stability, as long as they can escape to the
West.
To
hear Mr. Wei Jingsheng's commentary, please visit:
http://www.weijingsheng.org/RFA/RFA2010/WeiJS101007ChinaWayOut27EuropeUSAeconomy.mp3
(Written
and recorded on October 7, 2010.
Broadcasted by Radio Free Asia.)
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Wei
Jingsheng Foundation News and Article Release Issue: A586-W354
魏京生基金会新闻与文章发布号： A586-W354
Release
Date: November 20, 2010
发布日：2010年11月20日
Topic:
The Way Out for China (Part XXVII): In Comparison to the "China
Model", the U.S. and EU Democratic Systems Ensure Economic Development
With Social Equity -- by Wei Jingsheng
标题： 《中国的出路》之二十七：与“中国模式”相比，美欧的民主制度保证经济发展下的社会公平 -- 魏京生
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《中国的出路》之二十七：与“中国模式”相比，美欧的民主制度保证经济发展下的社会公平
-- 魏京生
前面的几篇我们谈到了从邓小平时代以来，经济发展的战略就是错误的。所谓让一部分人先富起来和出口导向型的经济，就是残酷剥削劳动者，让少数人暴富的战略；就是和西方大企业分享剥削的成果，以此收买西方大企业帮助专制政权游说西方政府的战略。这种发展模式被西方大企业吹捧成所谓的“中国模式”。可是，这个模式并没有真正带来中国经济的腾飞，反而走向了死胡同，所造成的人民的贫穷成为阻碍经济社会发展的绊脚石。
仅仅进行经济体制的改革能突破这个瓶颈吗？肯定不行。因为中国经济的畸形状况正是政治的畸形带来的。正常的发展应该是在生产能力提高的同时，全社会均衡地获得发展的好处：工资增长；利润增加；福利提高；教育医疗等等都会同步增长。社会需求的增长是经济发展的原动力，生产能力的增长不愁找到相应的市场。这是一个大的经济体的正常发展模式。
美国二百年的发展道路就是一个典型的例子。欧洲国家的发展在达到一定水平之后，就明显感到了市场的不足。近四百年来欧洲的战争，几乎都是为了争夺市场。用希特勒的名言说，就是争夺生存空间。第二次世界大战之后，欧洲人为了扩大自己的市场搞起了欧洲共同体，现在发展成了欧洲国家联盟。它的实质就是用共享一个大的市场来代替战争。在美国的推动下，又搞起了世界贸易组织，目的也是用自由贸易扩大世界自由市场，用极度扩大的世界市场来消灭战争的根源。
欧洲共同市场达到了它的目的。共同的发展消灭了欧洲战争的原动力。现在如果有人告诉你说德国和法国打起来了，你一定会马上查阅日历，看今天是不是愚人节。因为大家都知道那是不可能的。扩大了的市场带来的不仅仅是和平，欧洲国家的经济和科学技术的发展也表现得非常良好。这让所有人都不得不羡慕他们只用半个世纪就治疗了战争的创伤，并进入了比战前更加繁荣的发达阶段。欧洲的发展也给美国带来了进一步发展的机会。迅速扩大的欧洲市场，是美国经济持续发展的强大动力。
欧洲为什么也会给美国带来机会呢？欧洲自身的发展为什么会那么快呢？这都是因为欧洲在经济恢复和发展的阶段，实行的是与民同富的发展战略。人民富裕了；市场扩大了；生产才有了增长的动力。生产增长了，就代表着消费市场的扩大；市场扩大了，才有扩大生产的需求。如果欧洲和美国也采取让一部分人先富起来的政策，财富被集中在少数人手里外逃或者炒作金融，那就不会有这半个世纪迅速而又均衡的发展。
为什么欧洲和美国的发展可以是公平分配的发展呢?这是因为那儿有民主的政府。人民确实有支配政客们的权利。不听话就把你选下去，这个大家已经很清楚了。民主政府为什么能造成公平的分配呢？因为不公平老百姓不干。资本家最喜欢所谓的市场公平，也就是赚钱的公平，这是市场经济的规律。但是，人们要求的不仅仅是市场公平，还要对人的公平。市场是为人和人类社会服务的，而不是相反。人类不应该成为市场和资本家的奴隶。
没有市场的公平，经济发展就缺少了动力。公平是至今为止我们知道的，最能调动人们工作积极性的经济模式。没有社会的公平，市场和有权有势的资本家必然会把所有劳动者变成连奴隶都不如的可怜虫。资本家会榨干工人的血汗，不顾他们的死活。对资本家来说这并不是错误，资本和资本家在市场里的功能就是赚钱，而不是从事慈善事业。所以要有一个市场外的权威，来维持人类的公平。否则，这个社会就很难维持下去。
民主制度是迄今为止我们所知道的最有效地维持了社会公平的体制。俗话说：春江水暖鸭先知。公平不公平，生活在社会底层的大部分老百姓的感受最准确。这个调查呀，那个统计呀，都有可能被金钱作弊，只有老百姓的感受没办法收买。政治最终控制在老百姓手里，政治就得为老百姓服务，选票比空喊口号实在得多。资本家永远有办法收买政客们，防不胜防；但资本家永远不可能收买大多数的老百姓。既然政客们的政治生命掌握在老百姓的手里，资本家的收买就只能产生有限的效果，很难危及到老百姓的根本利益。
我们中国的统治者们天天都在高喊为人民服务。但是，为什么只看见人民为他们服务了呢？这是因为政客们的命运并不掌握在选民手里。政治是少数人的政治，他们可以自我繁殖。虽然那不是父继子承，但也是在一个帮伙中互相继承。公共权力成了帮派的私产，谁还会关心老百姓的权利和利益呢？这种政治体制的政策必然是让他们那一帮的人先富起来，不可能把富裕的机会让给全体老百姓。所以邓小平的经济政策是专制体制的必然。
聆听魏京生先生的相关录音，请访问：
http://www.weijingsheng.org/RFA/RFA2010/WeiJS101007ChinaWayOut27EuropeUSAeconomy.mp3
（撰写并录音于2010年10月7日。自由亚洲电台播出。）
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