在知识经济大潮下,进行社会主义精神文明建设,有必要研究精神生产的社会作用,探讨精神生产在新的历史条件下的特点和规律,从而全面推进社会主义精神文明建设。精神生产长期以来不为人们所重视,主要原因在于物质生产历来是政治经济学研究的对象,许多经济学家都力图把物质生产解 Under the tide of knowledge economy, to carry out the construction of socialist spiritual civilization, it is necessary to study the social role of spiritual production and explore the features and laws of spiritual production under new historical conditions so as to comprehensively promote the socialist spiritual civilization. The main reason why spiritual production has not been valued by people for a long time lies in the fact that material production has traditionally been the object of political economy studies. Many economists are trying their best to make material production solutions