共同利益是普遍利益吗?——与沈湘平先生商榷

Common Interest is General Interest or Not

在人类社会各种利益关系中,个人利益是前提,也是基础,社会的其他利益是在个人利益的基础上衍生和发展起来的。一般而言,个人利益对应的是社会利益(共同体利益)和公共利益(国家利益);而特殊利益对应的是普遍利益,如果把共同体利益等同于普遍利益,实际是把普遍利益的内涵缩小,而把共同体利益的外延扩大了,实际是把共同体利益扩大等同于普遍利益。马克思批判资本主义社会的社会性质,就是批判资本主义把资本主义的共同体利益替换成社会的普遍利益。

In various interest relations of human society,personal interest is not only the premise,but also the foundation. The other interests are derived and developed from personal interests. In general,personal interest corresponds to social interest（common interest） and public interest（national interest） ,while special interest corresponds to general interest. If common interest is equal to general interest,actually it means to reduce the intention of general interest and at the same time expand the extension of common interest. In other words,expanding common interest equates to general interest. Marx criticized the social character of capitalist society that capitalism replaced capitalist common interest with social general interest.