消费社会与资本主义经济危机的演变

进入“丰裕社会”后,强调消费成为西方发达资本主义国家缓和资本主义矛盾以及推动社会发展的主题,资本主义社会从工业社会进入了后工业社会或者说消费社会。现代消费社会的经济特征主要表现为:高度发达的金融市场。随着现代消费社会的出现和发展,资本主义社会的基本矛盾出现了一些新的变化。其中包括:企业追逐利润与社会利益的矛盾、虚拟资本盲目扩张与中小投资者利益的矛盾以及社会福利资金不足与政府债务负担过重的矛盾等。

Consumer Society and Evolution of the Capitalist Economic Crisis

After entering "Affluent Societies",the developed capitalist countries apply "stressed consumer" as the theme to deal with the contradictions of capitalism and promote the social development,and then the capitalist society passed the industrial society into the consumer society. The economic characteristics of the consumer society is highly developed financial markets. With the development of modern consumer society,there are some new changes of the basic contradiction of capitalist society,such as corporate profits and social interests,unsustainable and rapid expansion of fictitious capital and smaller investors'' interests,insufficient social welfare funds and heavy government debt burden.