资本主义基本矛盾是认识资本主义历史走向的关键。资本主义基本矛盾运动机制在当代发生了新的变化,形成了垄断与竞争并存、国家与市场并存的新机制。在这两大机制的作用下,资本主义基本矛盾在一国或全球范围内的运动给当代资本主义的发展注入了新的活力,使资本主义仍然具有一定的生命力。但是,资本剥削手段的隐蔽化、资本与劳动两极分化的加剧、人与自然矛盾的激化,以及资本主义基本矛盾在全球范围运动的新形式,又孕育着阻碍资本主义发展并促使其走向灭亡的动力和因素。资本主义基本矛盾运动中显露的资本主义弊端,表明了这样一种生产方式和社会制度注定是没有前途的。

The fundamental contradiction of capitalism is the key to recognize its historical trend. In the modern society, a new change has been brought to the development mechanism of the fundamental contradiction of capitalism. And a new mechanism has come into being, which is characterized by the co-existence of monopoly and competition and the co-existence of countries and markets. Under the impact of these two mechanisms, the development of the fundamental contradiction of capitalism, in one country or worldwide, reenergizes the development of contemporary capitalism and reinforces its vitality to some extent. However, the concealment of capitalistic exploitation, the sharpening polarization of capital and labor, the growing conflict between man and nature, and the new development style of the fundamental contradiction of capitalism worldwide, give birth to forces and factors that block the development of capitalism and eventually lead to its death. The drawbacks revealed in the development of the fundamental contradiction of capitalism indicate such a mode of production and social system is doomed to failure.