1 对于社会形态的区分,20世纪80年代就有学者提出“经济社会形态”和“技术社会形态”的区分。这种区分无疑是相对的,两类形态之间应该是有关联的,如马克思在讲到“蒸汽磨生产的是以工业资本家为首的社会”时,就多少揭示了近代技术社会形态与经济社会形态之间的关联。美国信息社会学家曼纽尔·卡斯特(Manuel Castells)于90年代末提出了“信息资本主义”(informational capitalism)的概念,我认为他试图以此将当代经济社会形态和当代技术社会形态加以了整合。他提出这一概念的思路是 1 For the distinction between social forms, some scholars put forward the distinction between “economic and social forms” and “technical social forms” in the 1980s. This distinction is undoubtedly relative. There should be a correlation between the two types of forms. For example, when Marx referred to “steam-mill production is a society headed by industrial capitalists,” it reveals how the modern technological society and the economy and society The connection between forms. Manuel Castells, an American information sociologist, put forward the concept of “informational capitalism” in the late 1990s, and I think he tries to combine contemporary economic and social patterns with contemporary technological and social patterns Be integrated. His idea of ​​this concept is