VIETNAM AND THE ‘THIRD WAY’: THE NATURE OF SOCIO‐ECONOMIC TRANSITION
VIETNAM AND THE ‘THIRD WAY’: THE NATURE OF SOCIO‐ECONOMIC TRANSITION
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越南与“第三条道路”:社会经济转型的本质
DOI:
10.1111/j.1467-9663.1997.tb01640.x
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发表时间:
1997
影响因子:
4.8
通讯作者:
S. Fahey
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作者:
S. Fahey
A major dilemma for the Vietnamese state during transition from a command to market economy is how to manage the emergence of market forces within an existing Marxist ideology. The quandary for commentators is whether a hybrid form of the socialist market or the ‘third way’ is a viable goal. Underpinning the analysis of socio-economic change in former socialist countries is some understanding of the processes by which the transition occurs. Questions of process are the major focus of the increasing volume of literature on transition in Vietnam. In this article questions of process are also addressed but the analysis is extended to a discussion of what the outcome of transition will be. It is clear in Eastern Europe and the former USSR that economic and political institutions which supported socialism disintegrated with a ‘big bang’ and that these countries are in the process of rebuilding themselves according to the principles of the capitalist market. It is argued that in Vietnam as in China, the process of transition has been one of ‘gradualism’ beginning with micro-economic followed by macro-economic reforms but with limited political reform. The intention of both Vietnamese and Chinese policy-makers is not to create a capitalist market but a socialist-oriented market in which the Communist Party leadership remains in place and that public ownership of the means of production is a declared priority. In this article historical, cultural, social as well as economic evidence is drawn upon to argue that persistence of a hybrid socio-economic structure in Vietnam is possible.