文/大衛(wèi)·弗格森（David W.Ferguson，英國(guó)） 譯/史聰一

對(duì)于那些貧窮及欠發(fā)達(dá)國(guó)家而言，西方的政治模式并不符合其需求。在這些國(guó)家中，鮮有采用西方政治模式并因此走向成功和繁榮的例子。

在實(shí)行西方民主制度前，許多國(guó)家既非處于貧困狀態(tài)，又非處于欠發(fā)達(dá)狀態(tài)，這樣的例子反而不少。以俄羅斯和烏克蘭為例，二者在20世紀(jì)90年代成為西方“民主國(guó)家”后，兩國(guó)國(guó)內(nèi)生產(chǎn)總值皆折損了2/3。曾幾何時(shí)，利比亞是整個(gè)非洲大陸上最穩(wěn)定、最有序、最繁榮的國(guó)度之一。而今，利比亞在成為“民主國(guó)家”后卻變得支離破碎。過(guò)去，利比亞的主要產(chǎn)業(yè)是石油。但現(xiàn)在，這個(gè)國(guó)家的主要產(chǎn)業(yè)竟然是人口販賣(mài)。

西方民主模式在強(qiáng)加于世界其他國(guó)家時(shí)之所以會(huì)失靈，是因?yàn)槲鞣絿?guó)家并非先成為民主國(guó)家，而后才繁榮起來(lái)。相反，這些國(guó)家是先富裕起來(lái)，然后才成為所謂的“民主國(guó)家”，這就是它們的現(xiàn)代化道路。因此，要理解和討論中國(guó)式現(xiàn)代化，就必須從辯證與歷史的維度分析世界的現(xiàn)代化進(jìn)程。

我認(rèn)為，西方發(fā)達(dá)國(guó)家的現(xiàn)代化道路建立在“三重剝削”的基礎(chǔ)之上。

第一重剝削，是西方國(guó)家對(duì)本國(guó)工人階級(jí)的無(wú)情剝削，使后者成為工業(yè)化城市工廠中的苦力，生活極其困頓，物質(zhì)極端匱乏。在美國(guó)，也曾有數(shù)百萬(wàn)奴隸作為農(nóng)村勞動(dòng)力受到剝削。

第二重剝削，是西方國(guó)家對(duì)其他國(guó)家的無(wú)情剝削，方式無(wú)外乎兩種：一是殖民主義，二是暴力侵略和占領(lǐng)，從而掠奪其他國(guó)家的資源。

The Western political model is ill-suited to the needs of poor and underdeveloped countries.There are few examples of poor and underdeveloped countries that adopted the Western political model and went on to become successful and prosperous as a result.

And there are plenty of examples of countries that weren’t poor and underdeveloped until they became Western democracies.Russia and Ukraine each lost two thirds of their GDP after becoming Western democracies in the 1990s.Libya was one of the most stable,orderly,and prosperous countries on the whole African continent.Now it’s a democracy,and it’s a broken state.Its main industry used to be oil.Now it’s human trafficking.

There’s a reason why the Western democratic model doesn’t work when it’s forced on other countries.Because Western countries did not become democracies and then become prosperous.First they became rich,and then they became democracies.That was their path of modernisation,and in order to understand and discuss China’s modernisation,you must conduct a dialectical and historical analysis of the whole history of modernisation across the globe.

The developed West followed a path of modernisation built on what I call the Three Exploitations.

First,ruthless exploitation of their own working class,who became factory fodder in industrial cities,living in dreadful poverty and deprivation.In the US they also exploited millions of slaves as rural labour.

Second,ruth less exploitation of other countries,either through colonialism or simply through invasion and occupation,in order to loot their resources.

大衛(wèi)·弗格森在中國(guó)共產(chǎn)黨國(guó)際形象傳播創(chuàng)新論壇（2023）上發(fā)表演講（中國(guó)外文局國(guó)際傳播發(fā)展中心 劉嶸 焦非 攝）

第三重剝削，是西方國(guó)家對(duì)自然環(huán)境的無(wú)度透支。整個(gè)西方世界用了200年時(shí)間才明白了一個(gè)道理：將實(shí)現(xiàn)現(xiàn)代化建立在破壞環(huán)境的基礎(chǔ)之上，絕非明智之舉。

當(dāng)今世界，這些剝削方式都是不可容忍甚至是難以想象的。中國(guó)的現(xiàn)代化進(jìn)程顯然不能采取這種模式。

在中國(guó)共產(chǎn)黨的百年建黨史及70多年的執(zhí)政歷程中，那種將窮人視為可剝削資源的觀點(diǎn)同中國(guó)共產(chǎn)黨的所有思想皆背道而馳。

中國(guó)同世界其他國(guó)家的關(guān)系建立在對(duì)外開(kāi)放、和平友好、共同發(fā)展的基礎(chǔ)之上，并通過(guò)“一帶一路”倡議等付諸實(shí)踐。比如在環(huán)境方面，中國(guó)只用了不到40年的時(shí)間，便洞悉了西方花了兩個(gè)世紀(jì)才真正明白的理念。

中國(guó)式現(xiàn)代化建立在一整套與現(xiàn)代世界和中國(guó)國(guó)情相適應(yīng)的結(jié)構(gòu)、進(jìn)程及一系列相關(guān)舉措的基礎(chǔ)之上，這些要素共同構(gòu)成了全過(guò)程人民民主。

Third,ruthless exploitation of the environment.It took the West two hundred years to understand that modernisation achieved by destroying the environment is not a good idea.

None of these exploitations is in any way tolerable or even thinkable in today’s world,and China’s modernisation clearly cannot follow that model.

Through its hundred years of existence and its seventy years of governance,the idea that the poor are a resource to be exploited is the antithesis of everything the CPC believes in.

China’s relationship with the rest of the world is based on opening up,peace and friendship,and mutual development,through initiatives like the BRI.For example,in terms of the environment,China learned in less than forty years what it took the West two centuries to understand.

China’s modernisation is based on a set of structures and processes and a series of actions properly matched to the modern world and China’s conditions.Together they formWhole-Process People’s Democracy.

首先，中國(guó)擁有成文憲法，依憲治國(guó)，任何人不得有超越憲法的特權(quán)，所有修改憲法內(nèi)容的建議都必須嚴(yán)格按照法定程序，經(jīng)權(quán)力機(jī)關(guān)批準(zhǔn)通過(guò)。

從不那么概念化的視角來(lái)審視，中國(guó)政治制度中最為重要的特征之一是：在中國(guó)，你能夠確定出現(xiàn)在面前的領(lǐng)導(dǎo)干部就是實(shí)實(shí)在在地參與治國(guó)理政的人，你能確定全國(guó)人民代表大會(huì)、中國(guó)共產(chǎn)黨中央委員會(huì)、中國(guó)共產(chǎn)黨中央委員會(huì)政治局以及國(guó)家主席都在治國(guó)理政中發(fā)揮重要作用。

中國(guó)政治制度的第二個(gè)重要特點(diǎn)是：領(lǐng)導(dǎo)干部始終堅(jiān)持將發(fā)展計(jì)劃詳細(xì)地闡釋出來(lái)。闡述的過(guò)程較為冗長(zhǎng)，實(shí)事求是地講，有時(shí)候會(huì)令人感到無(wú)聊，但之后他們總會(huì)去付諸實(shí)踐。從“五年規(guī)劃”到兩會(huì)報(bào)告，均是如此。

中國(guó)共產(chǎn)黨所做的一切，都是為中國(guó)人民謀幸福，增進(jìn)人民福祉。在遠(yuǎn)離中國(guó)本土的地方，中國(guó)共產(chǎn)黨可曾毫無(wú)根據(jù)地發(fā)動(dòng)或是煽動(dòng)戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)？又有多少貧窮無(wú)辜、手無(wú)寸鐵的百姓在這樣的戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)中失去生命？對(duì)第一個(gè)問(wèn)題，答案是兩個(gè)字：沒(méi)有；對(duì)第二個(gè)問(wèn)題，答案仍舊是兩個(gè)字：沒(méi)有！

事實(shí)上，中國(guó)共產(chǎn)黨為實(shí)現(xiàn)中國(guó)經(jīng)濟(jì)社會(huì)變革作出了艱苦卓絕的努力。在20世紀(jì)70年代，中國(guó)曾比撒哈拉以南非洲諸國(guó)還要貧窮。但時(shí)至今日，中國(guó)是全球第二大經(jīng)濟(jì)體，并躋身中等收入國(guó)家行列，且不斷接近高收入國(guó)家的標(biāo)準(zhǔn)。

在中國(guó)，每一個(gè)孩子都有免費(fèi)接受義務(wù)教育的權(quán)利。過(guò)去的50年中，中國(guó)成功地從零開(kāi)始創(chuàng)建了福利制度，為全國(guó)人民提供基本的福利覆蓋。在某些情況下，中國(guó)的福利制度比西方發(fā)達(dá)國(guó)家的制度要好很多。例如，中國(guó)養(yǎng)老保險(xiǎn)制度是員工和雇主共同繳納養(yǎng)老保險(xiǎn)，成年無(wú)業(yè)人員也能通過(guò)個(gè)人繳納的方式獲得養(yǎng)老保障。

我夫人的姐姐退休前是普通的中國(guó)工人，她們每月都可以有大概相當(dāng)于300英鎊的退休金。按絕對(duì)值計(jì)算，這筆金額大約是英國(guó)國(guó)家養(yǎng)老金的一半；就購(gòu)買(mǎi)力平價(jià)而言，這筆退休金的價(jià)值不亞于英國(guó)，甚至價(jià)值更高。但是，她們作為工人，在50歲時(shí)就可以退休了。而在英國(guó)，女性的退休年齡過(guò)去是60歲，現(xiàn)在是66歲。在我看來(lái)，她們?cè)谥袊?guó)所享受到的養(yǎng)老金，比我在英國(guó)所享受到的養(yǎng)老金性?xún)r(jià)比要高。

First of all,China is a state governed by a written constitution.No one can act outwith the authority of the constitution,and any proposed amendment to the constitution has to be approved by properly authorised bodies in accordance with defined procedures.

From a less conceptual perspective,one of the most important features of China’s political system is this: in China,you can be certain that the people who are running the show are people you can see,right in front of your face.In China you can be certain that the country is being governed by the National People’s Congress,and the Central Committee of CPC,and the Political Bureau,and the President.

A second important feature is that these people always spell out exactly what they are planning to do -in long,and to be honest sometimes boring detail -and then they go ahead and do it.The Fiveyear Plans and the reports to the Two Sessions,for example,do exactly that.

Everything the Party has done has been in the interests of and to the benefit of the Chinese people.How many groundless wars has the CPC launched or fomented in distant parts of the world? How many millions of poor,innocent,and defenceless people have died in these wars? The answers are none and none.

Instead,the party has conducted endless and painstaking efforts to transform China’s economy and society.In the 1970s China was poorer than sub-Saharan Africa.Now it is a middle-income country,bordering on a high-income country,with the second-largest economy in the world.

Every single child in China has a right to free compulsory education.Over the last five decades China has succeeded in creating out of nothing a welfare system that provides basic coverage to the whole population,in some cases much better than what developed Western countries can provide.For example,the state pension system in China is that working adults contribute and their employers contribute,and non-working adults can have their contributions credited.

My sisters-in law were Chinese ordinary workers.They both enjoy a pension worth about￡300 per month.That is about half of the UK state pension in absolute terms;in terms of purchasing power it is at least as good or better.But like allgongren,my sisters-in-law retired at the age of 50.The retirement age for women in the UK was 60,and it is now 66.My sisters-in law have better pension provision in China than I do in the UK.

在過(guò)去50年里，中國(guó)有數(shù)億人擺脫了貧困。在過(guò)去十年中，中國(guó)最后的約1億貧困人口也擺脫了絕對(duì)貧困。在世界范圍內(nèi)，總?cè)丝诔^(guò)1億的國(guó)家總共也就十幾個(gè)，沒(méi)有任何其他國(guó)家曾經(jīng)實(shí)現(xiàn)過(guò)，或是曾經(jīng)有能力去實(shí)現(xiàn)如此雄心勃勃的目標(biāo)。目前，中國(guó)已經(jīng)制定了一些相關(guān)戰(zhàn)略，以確保貧困人口的生活水平能夠繼續(xù)以高于全國(guó)平均水平的速度增長(zhǎng)，從而縮小該群體同其他群體間的收入差距。

實(shí)現(xiàn)人員、貨物、信息快速高效運(yùn)輸與傳送，是經(jīng)濟(jì)發(fā)展的關(guān)鍵所在。中國(guó)有句俗語(yǔ)：要想富，先修路。中國(guó)擁有世界上最好的基礎(chǔ)設(shè)施及通信設(shè)施，這也成為推動(dòng)中國(guó)經(jīng)濟(jì)發(fā)展和扶貧工作的一個(gè)關(guān)鍵性因素。

中國(guó)的全過(guò)程人民民主，是基于三個(gè)“C”展開(kāi)：合作（cooperation）、協(xié)商（consultation）及連續(xù)性（continuity）。合作，即各界人士及團(tuán)體參與人民代表大會(huì)和政治協(xié)商會(huì)議，相互之間精誠(chéng)合作；協(xié)商，是憲法賦予人民就立法提案發(fā)表意見(jiàn)建議的權(quán)利，而立法機(jī)關(guān)也有憲法規(guī)定的聽(tīng)取人民意見(jiàn)建議的義務(wù)；連續(xù)性，即發(fā)展戰(zhàn)略需要通過(guò)數(shù)年甚至數(shù)十年的時(shí)間制定、試行、檢驗(yàn)并推行。

發(fā)展中國(guó)家的貧困人口需要的是住有所居，食能果腹，衣可蔽體；還要?jiǎng)谟兴茫优畬W(xué)有所教，生活安全無(wú)憂(yōu)，未來(lái)美好可期。

這是一個(gè)重要的事實(shí)：要想真正實(shí)現(xiàn)富裕，需要為之付出努力。要想為之付出努力，需要滿(mǎn)足某些基本條件。其中，最基本的條件是長(zhǎng)治久安。正是中國(guó)的全過(guò)程人民民主和中國(guó)共產(chǎn)黨執(zhí)政的長(zhǎng)期穩(wěn)定性，為中國(guó)人民實(shí)現(xiàn)富裕的努力創(chuàng)造了條件。

Over the last five decades China has raised hundreds of millions of people out of poverty.Over the last ten years the last 100 million have been raised out of absolute poverty.There are only about a dozen countries in the world with a total population of more than 100 million.No other country has ever achieved or could ever achieve such an ambitious goal.China now has in place strategies to ensure that the standards of living of the poor continue to rise faster than the average,to reduce the income gap.

Critical to economic development is the ability to move people,goods,and information quickly and efficiently.There is an old saying in Chinaif you want to get rich,build a road.China has by a considerable margin the best physical and the best communications infrastructure in the world.That has been a key factor in both economic development and poverty alleviation.

China’s Whole-Process People’s Democracy is based on three C’s-cooperation,consultation,and continuity.Cooperation between the huge number of individuals and groups representing all walks of life who participate in the People’s Congresses and the CPPCC.Consultation in that individual citizen have a constitutional right to voice opinions and suggestions on proposed legislation,and the legislative authorities have a constitutional obligation to listen to them.Continuity where strategies will be devised,piloted,reviewed and rolled out over periods of years and even decades.

Poor people in developing countries need a roof over their heads,food on the table,clothes on their backs,jobs for themselves,schools for their kids,safe streets,and prospects of a better future.

And here is a very important and absolute fact:You can only achieve prosperity by working for it.And you can only work for prosperity if certain essential conditions are met.Two of the most basic of these are long-term stability and order.China’s Whole-Process People’s Democracy and the longterm stable governance of the CPC deliver the conditions that allow the Chinese people to work for prosperity.