２１世纪对于资本主义世界来说 ,似乎凶多吉少。新世纪伊始 ,美国经济即陷入战后第１１次周期性经济萧条。美国经济的衰退 ,使本已持续多年低迷的日本经济雪上加霜 ,滑入“战后最糟状况”（日本《经济学人》周刊语）。美日经济的衰退 ,又将欧洲经济拖下了水。目前 ,整个资本主 The 21st century seems to be less aggressive for the capitalist world. At the beginning of the new century, the U.S. economy plunged into the 11th cyclical economic recession after the war. The economic recession in the United States has made the Japanese economy, which has been sluggish for many years, slip worse into “the worst after the war” (the Japanese “Economist Weekly”). The economic recession in the United States and Japan, in turn, has dragged the European economy down. At present, the entire capitalist