本世纪的最近20多年,对理论工作者来说,最开心的事莫过于打破了过去那种鸦雀无声的局面。我们终于可以畅所欲言,特别是在党和国家制定大政方针时,也可以发表自己独立的见解和评论。我印象最深的是,80年代初中期关于怎么样认识和对待包产到户和私营经济这两个极其繁杂问题的讨论。那是经过深入持久的激烈争论和各种试验,才在千百万人民实践的基础上形成了共识,这些共识在 In the last two decades of this century, the happiest thing for theorists is to break the silence of the past. We can finally speak our minds freely. When the party and the state make major policies, they can also express their own independent opinions and comments. What impresses me most is the discussion in the early 1980s on how to understand and treat the extremely complicated issues of household-to-consumer and private-owned economy. It was after a series of heated debates and trials that only reached consensus on the basis of the practice of millions of people,