In recent Japan, a word "Socialism" has often been used misunderstood as "the failure of policy operation and institution working." A passive atmosphere is hanging. Some people wonder if arguments about "socialism" have a meaning. Why I dare to argue about "the Socialist system studies" on this occasion is based on the following reason. Namely, we must not abandon the system studies because of the collapse of USSR and East European socialist systems in 1989-91. If they are not generalized properly, the generalization on the theories and practices of social science in this century will become one-sided. The main points argued about in this article are as follows : 1. All social scientists should take responsibility for generalizing their past studies regardless of their consciousness on the opportunity of USSR's collapse. Concerning evaluation of the USSR-typed socialism, the difference on their stances became clear. 2. No result was born from the studies that have persisted in the dogmatism or the ideology in case of the old USSR and East European system studies. Some results were found in the critical school, but it could never become mainstream. The causes of the degeneration of such a social scientific studies were in the censorship, the suppression of liberty on study, the restriction of access to the actual information and so on. In this point the former East European countries made a more decisive mistake. 3. On the other hand, the Western European economic studies are in the corner. Nowadays we should reconsider it from the beginning of its approach. For instance, economic studies should rely on more inductive method of the historical scientific study than deductive method of the abstract theory. 4. Concerning not only the system studies but also all the fields of economics, such a data network system as to find the reaching points and the problems of each field immediately is wanted to be set in the flow chart from policy making to investigation, aggregation, and analysis, finally to reconsideration. 5. It is necessary to consider socialism as the ideal and ideology, the institution and system and the motion and practice all together. And then, we must attempt to consider how had an ideal and a concept of socialism been distorted on each sides and actualized. As a conclusion, the causes of the actual distortion should be looked for in the immature of the former plan and conception. 6. Reconsidering the process of democracy, it has as many flaws as market mechanism, and it is not possible to look for the principle of system formation relying only on democracy. 7. After all, the principles of the desirable system in the 21st century will be invented while three principles of the plan and regulation, the market and the democracy are combined together in the form of mutual complementation.
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