中国特色社会主义何以是跨越“卡夫丁峡谷”之路

Why Socialism with Chinese Characteristics Is a Road That Spans the “Caudine Forks”

中国人民以敢闯敢干的勇气和自我革新的担当,闯出了一条跨越资本主义"卡夫丁峡谷"之路,这就是有中国特色的社会主义道路。跨越"卡夫丁峡谷"是指避免资本主义制度所带来的一切灾难性的波折,同时还要充分吸收和利用资本主义的一切积极成果。在中国,这个跨越过程可以分成两个阶段:第一阶段是计划经济时期,以公有制为基础,以计划为手段,完成工业化,为中国特色社会主义奠定物质基础;第二阶段是改革开放时期,大力引进西方先进技术,学习西方先进经验,不断解放生产力。正是因为对资本主义弊端有着深刻理解,马克思才强调俄国等东方落后国家发展不应该经历这些资本主义的苦难,要走跨越的道路。可惜的是,苏联解体,其在跨越的道路上跌倒了,没能完成第二阶段的跨越。中国的改革开放,则是新时期更高层次的跨越,我们吸收资本主义所创造的一切文明成果,使之服务于有中国特色的社会主义建设。

With the courage to break new ground and the commitment to self-innovation,the Chinese people have blazed a trail across the"Caudine Forks"of capitalism,which is the road of socialism with Chinese characteristics. To cross the"Caudine Forks"means to avoid all the disastrous twists and turns brought about by the capitalist system,while fully absorbing and utilizing all the positive fruits of capitalism. In China,this leapfrogging process can be divided into two stages: the first stage is the period of planned economy,with public ownership as the basis and planning as the means to complete in-dustrialization and lay a material foundation for socialism with Chinese characteristics;the second stage is the period of reform and opening up,during which we have been vigorously introducing advanced western technologies,learning from the advanced western experience and constantly emancipating the productive forces. It was precisely because of his profound understanding of the disadvantages of capitalism that Marx emphasized that Russia and other backward countries in the east should not go through the sufferings of capitalism,but should take the road of leapfrogging. Unfortunately,the collapse of the former Soviet Union made it fall down on the road of crossing,and the Soviet Union no longer had a chance to complete the second stage of crossing the"Caudine Forks"of capitalism. China’s reform and opening up is a higher level leap in the new era,for which we have been absorbing all the achievements of civilization created by capitalism and making them serve the socialist construction with Chinese characteristics.