进入本世纪以来,随着国家垄断资本主义的发展,发达资本主义的国家职能也相应地发生了一系列根本性的变化。这一变化集中体现在国家经济职能的加强上。国家已不象自由资本主义时期那样主要从政治上为资本主义经济发展创造外部条件,而是直接组织生产,日益成为干预、控制、指导全国经济发展的中心。它已经不单纯是个“守夜 Since the beginning of this century, with the development of state monopoly capitalism, a series of fundamental changes have taken place in the state functions of developed capitalism. This change is concentrated in the strengthening of the national economic functions. Instead of creating external conditions mainly for the economic development of capitalism, as in the period of free capitalism, the state has directly organized its production and increasingly became the center of intervening, controlling and guiding the development of the entire country’s economy. It is not simply a “vigil.”