“原始积累”恐怕是现在从学界到社会弄得最混乱的概念。我曾看到一份地方政府刊物夸耀说当地已经“完成了原始积累”;一部电视系列片则把中国乡镇企业的发展称之为“人类历史上最高尚的原始积累过程”!在这里“原始积累”俨然成了褒义词。另一部电视系列片更有意思,在列举了某特区当时的一些“缺点”,如现代包身工制、拘禁式工棚、对打工妹的性奴役现 “Primitive accumulation” is probably the most confusing concept now drawn from academia to society. I have seen a local government publication boasting that it has “completed its primitive accumulation” and that a television series calls the development of China’s township and village enterprises “the noblest process of primitive accumulation in human history” where “ Primitive accumulation ”seems to have become a commendatory term. Another TV series is even more interesting, citing some of the “shortcomings” of the SAR as at the time, such as modern bastards, detention sheds, sexual slavery against migrant workers