作为题目的这句话是马克思引用的19世纪中期英国下院食物掺假调查委员会的观点。在这里,自由贸易是资本主义制度下商品经济的代称。当代经济发达的资本主义国家的商品经济中,虽然仍然有着商业欺诈的现象(如美国著名大公司亦有做假账现象),但是假货贸易已经极为罕见。在这些国家里,资本家已经不屑于用、或者不敢用假货贸易的手段,因为那是不可能盈利,甚至可能导致破产的。 The phrase is the Marxist quote from the 19th-century British Lower House Food Adulteration Commission. Here, free trade is the name of the commodity economy under the capitalist system. In the commodity economy of the economically developed capitalist countries, there still exists the phenomenon of commercial fraud (such as the phenomenon of fake accounts in famous large-scale U.S. companies), but the fake trade has become extremely rare. In these countries, the capitalists have disdainful of, or dare not use, the means of fake trade because it is impossible to make a profit and may even lead to bankruptcy.