怎样看待社会主义与发展生产力的关系,这是一个关系到建设中国特色社会主义的重大理论与实际问题。邓小平同志在1992年南方谈话中把解放与发展生产力提高到社会主义本质的高度。他说:“社会主义的本质,是解放生产力,发展生产力,消灭剥削,消除两极分化,最终达到共同富裕”①他在《答美国记者迈克·华莱士问》一文中也明确地指出:“社会主义原则,第一是发展生产,第二是共同富裕。”②发展生产力的 How to view the relationship between socialism and the development of productive forces is a major theoretical and practical issue that concerns the construction of socialism with Chinese characteristics. In the 1992 southern conversation, Comrade Deng Xiaoping raised the level of liberation and development of productive forces to the essence of socialism. He said: “The essence of socialism is the liberation of productive forces, the development of productive forces, the eradication of exploitation, the elimination of polarization and the ultimate attainment of common prosperity.” 1 He also pointedly pointed out in his article “To Acknowledge U.S. Press Mike Wallace” : “The principle of socialism, the first is the development of production, the second is the common prosperity.” ② The development of productive forces