８０年代中后期，随着苏东社会主义解体，西方左翼学者开始重新思考社会主义的理论与实践，认为市场社会主义是发达资本主义国家走向社会主义的惟一可行的方案，并提出了各种具体的市场社会主义模式。在这些模式中，影响较大的是英国学者戴维·米勒的“合作制的市场社会主义” In the mid and late 1980s, along with the disintegration of socialism in the Soviet Union and the Soviet Union, the Western left-wing scholars began to rethink the theory and practice of socialism, believing that market socialism was the only viable solution for developed capitalist countries toward socialism and put forward various concrete Market socialist mode. Among these models, the more influential is the “cooperative system of market socialism” by British scholar David Miller,