Labor Property Rights and the Chinese Model

Author: Cao Tianyu
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Publish Date: 2006-06-01
Features: Labor property rights are very important for maintaining social justice. How to clarify the meaning of this concept at various levels from a theoretical perspective, especially to elucidate its relationship with the challenges faced by contemporary Marxism and its potential development, its connection with the nature and future direction of China's economic reforms, and its relationship with the characteristics of China's model of economic and social development—these are the topics discussed in this book. The theory of labor property rights actually negates the doctrine of determinism of ownership. Ownership is not unimportant, but the essence of the economic system lies not in ownership, but in the relationship between people in the production process, namely, who employs whom. This is the fundamental issue. Its ultimate basis is "the right of laborers based on the labor theory of value to non-transferable rights over the fruits of labor." The importance of this book lies in: we have developed a market economy on the basis of not abandoning socialist principles, which is a very crucial point in discussing contemporary Chinese issues.