Kinh tế thị trường không phải “hàng độc quyền” của chủ nghĩa tư bản

During the process of contributing to the 12th Party Congress documents, the issue of building a socialist- oriented market economy received much attention. Hostile forces opposing Vietnam and some individuals with erroneous views argued that the market economy belongs to capitalism and therefore cannot be combined with socialist orientation. They claimed that market economy and socialist orientation are

like water and fire; combining socialist orientation with a market economy would create a deformed entity. From this, they concluded that Vietnam must abandon the construction of a socialist- oriented market economy because this type of market economy does not exist, and building a market economy is essentially following the path of capitalism. So, is the market economy truly capitalist?

Can a market economy be combined with socialist orientation? I invite comrades and friends to follow the articles on developing a socialist-oriented market economy: the correct choice. In the section on " Defeating the Peaceful Evolution Strategy" published in the People's Army Newspaper, the following is an article titled "Market Economy Is Not a Monopoly of Capitalism"

by author Cong Phuong. Historical and current practice has shown that the market economy is not a product of capitalism. Capitalism did not create the commodity economy; it appeared in the early stages before the advent of money. Because there was no currency, the exchange of goods took a direct form called barter. A rice producer

needing meat could meet a meat producer needing rice to exchange directly for meat. This was already a commodity economy. Therefore, the market economy, as a high-level commodity economy, is not a product unique to capitalism but a common achievement of human development over many periods. The market economy has its roots in slave-owning societies, formed