The secretary-general of xi has spoken loudly: “there is a great variety of economic theories, but the essence of our political economy can only be marxist political economics, not other economic theories.” this is the foundation of belief that the political economy of marxism should guide chinese practice and advance the chinese-style modernization path. The new journey of the new era necessitates “three integration” to underpin the construction of an autonomous knowledge system of modern marxism political economics, leading to the construction of chinese philosophies and social sciences。
One is the integration of practice: “china as a view, and time as a view”, which promotes innovation in modern political economics。
General secretary xi made a scientific judgement on the relationship between innovation and practice, emphasizing that “innovation is a permanent theme in the development of philosophical social sciences and a necessary requirement for social development, deepening of practice and progress in history”. Marx, in his outline on felbaia, pointed out that the whole of social life is essentially practiced. Anything that leads to mysticism can be reasonably addressed in human practice and its understanding. Building an autonomous knowledge system for modern marxist political economics is primarily about theoretical autonomy。
In today's world, economic theory has long been dominated by western neoliberalism. In particular, western dominant economics, represented by monetaryism, supply schools, new systems of economics, public choice schools, etc., have created western academic hegemony and an international discourse system that exacerbates the global gap between rich and poor, resulting in social inequality and financial instability. At the same time, rapid economic growth since china’s reform and opening-up, successful practices in the fight against poverty, and “touching boots” such as qualitative productivity development and industrial change in the digital economy, cannot be justified and explained in depth。
The nature of china’s specialist socialism dictates that our economics avoid becoming a simple footnote to western economic theory and break the academic attachment to western mainstream economic theory. Guided by an object-historic approach, the principles of marxism's political economy should be deeply integrated into the process of solving specific problems such as china's characteristic socialist economic development and china's modernization. Only then can modern political economics, based on marxism and its chineseization theory, truly take root in china, with great interpretive and guiding power, fully reflect china’s identity, chinese style, and chinese style。
The second is methodological convergence: using the “two combinations” as the basis for advancing paradigm innovation in modern political economics research。
For a long time, the dominant western economic paradigm, with its starting point of the “private” scenario, with marginal, balanced analysis as a tool, and with a micro- and macro-analytical framework, has dominated the academic evaluation system and monopolized the academic discourse of economic theory, hampering the development space for original economic theory in a large number of developing countries。
One important indicator of autonomous knowledge systems is the autonomy of the paradigm. In its 1962 book the structure of the scientific revolution, scientific philosophy thomas cowen defined “the paradigm” as a system of beliefs, values, methods and technologies shared by a scientific community, making it the core concept of science philosophy and the basic theoretical framework for distinguishing the main differences in knowledge systems. The paradigm autonomy of an autonomous knowledge system shows that the knowledge system has a set of models or standards in terms of academic terms, core theories, analytical methods and practices that are independently crafted, rather than simply following or applying other knowledge systems。
General secretary xi's important instructions for accelerating the construction of the chinese philosophic social science system, the academic system and the linguistic system have given us direction to break the western academic paradigm and achieve holistic innovation in chinese philosophic social sciences in terms of discipline, academia and discourse. In a sense, it is also a chinese expression of the “consensus of the scientific community”. The key to building an autonomous knowledge system of modern marxist political economics is to break through the western mainstream economics paradigm, to base itself on “two combinations”, to integrate marxism, china’s excellent traditional culture, and economic thinking that can be applied abroad, and to shape china’s typical socialist political economics paradigm。
For example, the scope and theoretical system of “people above all”, rather than “capital above all”, “common wealth” and not “diverse rich and poor”, “public ownership as the subject”, rather than “private ownership as the subject”, “national planning as the preponderant”, rather than “individual blind decision-making”, “community of human destiny” and not “unilateral economic hegemony” fully reflects the inherited and originality of economic theory, nationality and age, systemic and professionality。
From the point of view of construction strategies, the theoretical core of marxist political economics, such as material history and material forensics, the theory of labour values and the theory of residual values, should be firmly adhered to, drawing extensively on the approaches of social sciences and natural sciences, and actively pursuing cross-cutting, interdisciplinary approaches and theoretical breakthroughs. Marxist political economics and other theoretical economics, applied economics, could be integrated into innovation, cross-researched with philosophy, politics, sociology, law, culture, journalism and international relations, drawing on the latest research methods, such as systemic science, complex theory, to build a new paradigm that transcends both the traditional soviet economic paradigm and the modern western paradigm。
As a symbol of academic maturity, academic democracy and academic prosperity, academic schools have a prominent original theoretical impetus in building china's autonomous knowledge system of philosophical social sciences. In response to the fervent call for “adherence to and promotion of academic democracy, respect for differences, tolerance and diversity, and the promotion of a cross-section of academic views, symbioticism and equality of discourse”, the ideal vision of “blankness and chorus” is to advance further in the building and development of political economics schools, bringing the marxist political economy and chinese-specific socialist political economics paradigm innovation to the new horizon。
Third is the integration of objectives: “learning for the people”, which promotes innovation in modern political economics autonomous systems。
In addition to theoretical autonomy and paradigm autonomy, the third important indicator of an autonomous knowledge system lies in the autonomy of the system itself. The autonomy of the so-called system itself is reflected mainly in the autonomy of the standard system, the value system and the speech system. In particular, in the system of standards, emphasis is placed on optimizing the system of political economics curricula, teaching systems, teaching materials and building a system of standards of academic evaluation that is consistent with the core values of socialism and that can effectively explain and answer china's economic problems; in the system of values, the position of “learning for the people” is firmly established; the fundamental interests, needs and rights of working people are addressed as fundamental elements of the system of values; the issues of labour, wealth, money, capital, exchange, finance, justice, distribution, consumption and international interaction are focused as elements of the system of values that are taking place; a system of values that adheres to the standards of truth and values, that is compatible with the norms of discipline, academic freedom and compliance with the law is established; and, in the language system, the distinctive advantages of china's roads, doctrine, institutions and culture are fully visible, spreading china's voice, chinese theory, chinese thought and self-confidence in building a “chineseian” for development。
The wisdom of building an autonomous knowledge system is passed on from the hundreds of clans in kong mengung to the hundreds of minds. The three-dimensional system of coordinates of standards, values and words should be guided by institutional innovation and multi-party cooperation, with a comprehensive, cross-cutting, cross-cutting, elemental optimization and innovation in disciplines, materials development systems, research organization systems, platform support systems, evaluation appraisal systems, etc. For example, by combining the direct production process of capitalist capital, the flow of capital, the general process of capitalist production with the political economics fascicles envisaged in marx's early stages, building a new “five processes” system of modern political economics “direct production processes, circulation processes, distribution processes, national economic processes, international economic processes”, and drawing critically on modern western economics theories to construct a new “five perspectives” system of modern political economics。
General secretary xi pointed out in depth that the political economy of marxism had to evolve in order to be viable. The new course of the new era involves further integration of multidisciplinary, multidisciplinary and multi-targeted innovations, the promotion of fundamental innovation, paradigm innovation, systemic innovation, and the active promotion of realism, interpretation and guidance; the allocation of academic resources based on modern chinese-style practical science, including exploring the creation of a world award for political economics with chinese characteristics, the improvement and refinement of the system of academic evaluation indicators, and the development of financial and economic universities and leading economic disciplines in the world's academic forest, contributing to the progress of human economic civilization。
