略论世界历史的形成

On the Origins of the World History

世界史理论是马克思主义史学理论的重要组成部分。马克思认为,人类社会的世界历史不是过去一直存在的,而是生产力普遍增长和人们交往普遍发展的必然结果。马克思在《〈政治经济学批判〉导言》中提出的人类历史三大社会形态说,是我国学者正确理解世界史的出发点。真正意义的世界历史乃是全人类获得彻底解放的历史。人类在没有消灭私有制、消灭阶级、消灭劳动分工之前,是不可能形成真正意义的世界历史的。因此,世界历史的形成与无产阶级的历史使命紧密相连。

The theory of the world history is one of the most important parts of Marxist theory. The theory of three social formations which Marx mentioned in Preface to A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy is the starting point for Chinese scholars to study world history. In the opinion of Marx, the world history does not always exist.However, the second social formation provides essential condition for the origin of it. The world history should be the history of the complete liberation of human kind after proletarian revolution in a real sense.