关键词: 国家理论, 中国社会主义政治经济学, 马克思主义

Abstract: The state theory is a common focus of research on Chinese socialist political economy in recent years, and the current studies can be divided into three categories from a problemconscious perspective: the reasons for incorporating the state theory into the theoretical system of Chinese socialist political economy; how to incorporate the state theory into the theoretical system of Chinese socialist political economy; and the manifestation of the importance of the state in other theoretical systems. According to the scope and extent of the role of the state in economic activities, the theory of the state in economics can be roughly divided into the following four types of explanatory logics: liberal economics, public economics, the developmental state, and new institutional economics. Compared with the above explanatory logics, the understanding of the economic function of the state in Marxist state theory is rooted in its class theory that the state is the product of irreconcilable class contradictions in origin and a tool of class rule in nature, and the economic function of the state is first manifested as the requirements of class attributes. The role of the “state” in Chinese socialist political economy precedes that of the “market” in logical order, and the “state” should be used to explain the “market” in interpretation; besides, there exists an internal dialectical relationship between the “state” and the “market”.

Key words: state theory, Chinese socialist political economy, Marxism