How to deal with economic polarization

Polarization originally refers to two extreme trends, that is, a few capitalists who are divorced from labor and a large number of hired workers who sell their labor. These two trends are constantly generated from small commodity producers under the condition of private ownership of commodity economy. Polarization is the inevitable result of the law of value in private commodity economy. This polarization of small producers, under certain historical conditions, that is, the end of feudal society and capitalist society, led to and promoted the emergence and development of capitalist relations of production, leading to the disparity between the rich and the poor. In the primary stage of socialism in China, the basic economic system with public ownership as the main body and multiple ownership economies developing together is implemented; Implement the distribution system with distribution according to work as the main body and multiple modes of distribution coexisting, so that some people can get rich first. However, the socialist system will not concentrate social wealth more and more in the hands of a few people, as under the condition of capitalist private ownership. The essential feature of socialism is "* * * common prosperity". Through macro-control of laws and policies, the state can keep the income gap between citizens within a reasonable and legal range and eliminate polarization.

Understanding of global economic polarization;

Globalization is the expansion of modernization that originated in the west in modern times at the global level. The concrete manifestations of modernization are urbanization, industrialization, secularization and democratization. Why is the polarization in the world becoming more and more serious with the development of economic globalization? The reason for this is the following：

First, it is the essence of the capitalist system and the economic basis determined by the current human productive forces. Nowadays, economic globalization is largely based on capital. A few developed countries play a leading role in the process of economic globalization. Economic globalization is actually the globalization of market economy, and the basis of market economy is competition, because material resources are scarce, and only through competition can more resources be obtained. The result of competition is polarization and survival of the fittest.

Second, it is the problem of economic globalization itself. It should be said that the current economic globalization is more beneficial to developed countries. Developed countries use their dominant position to engage in high value-added strategy, that is, import resources from developing countries and then export high value-added products to developing countries. In this process, the developed countries earn the price difference, so the richer the rich countries are, the poorer the poor countries are.

The third is the free flow of population, which can be said to be a talent strategy. Economic globalization is an increasingly free flow of various resources around the world, including the flow of talents. Developed countries are generally open to three kinds of immigrants, 1 skilled immigrants, 2 political immigrants and 3 investment immigrants. This leads to a large outflow of talents from developing countries, which is not conducive to the development of developing countries, and it is even more unfavorable to catch up with developed countries. Genius.

An analysis of polarization in China;

1. There is a big gap between the rich and the poor in China, which has a lot to do with the big gap between China and urban and rural areas. For example, the development of the east and west is unbalanced, the rural economy is developing slowly, and the rural population is too large.

2. Pay more attention to efficiency than fairness. At the beginning of the reform, Deng said "giving priority to efficiency and giving consideration to fairness", but in fact, we only pay attention to efficiency and seldom pay attention to fairness. The result of this policy is a "winner takes all" situation, which intensifies polarization.

3. Imperfect socialist market economic system leads to the proliferation of fake and shoddy goods and serious local protectionism, which artificially hinders the market from playing a fundamental role in resource allocation, and makes some individuals and enterprises with poor credit, poor quality and poor morality make a fortune, while some individuals and enterprises with high credit, good quality and high morality suffer greatly, seriously affecting the principle of fairness and efficiency in the market economy and leading to artificial polarization between the rich and the poor.

From the above analysis, we draw a conclusion that the fundamental reason for this situation is that the dominant position of the state-owned economy has been weakened, shaken or even changed, and correspondingly, the capitalist economic factors have been excessively expanded. At the same time, the widening economic gap between urban and rural areas and the east and west is also an important factor that aggravates the rise of Gini coefficient. Therefore, the fundamental way to eliminate the current gap between the rich and the poor is to strictly abide by the provisions of the Constitution, rather than falsely saying: "In the primary stage of socialism, the state should adhere to the economic system in which public ownership is the mainstay and diversified economies develop together (this is Article 6 of the Constitution). The state-owned economy and socialist ownership by the whole people are the leading forces of the national economy, and the state guarantees the consolidation and development of the state-owned economy (Article 7 of the Constitution). " At present, the reform of the income distribution system put forward by the central government with the focus on appropriately increasing the income of low-income people is undoubtedly completely correct. It is impossible to write articles only from the field of income distribution without adjusting the social and economic structure. In particular, we must conscientiously implement the positioning of the state-owned economy as the main body and the public-owned economy as the leading factor. If we do not work hard to consolidate and develop the socialist economy owned by the whole people, but continue to allow the private economy and foreign-funded economy to develop indefinitely, the contradiction between the rich and the poor can only be temporarily saturated at best, but cannot be fundamentally eliminated. As Marx said in criticizing the economist Sveton, "this is just using painkillers, not removing the root cause."