马克思恩格斯论中国的政治

Marx and Engels on China’s political system

马克思和恩格斯认为中国封建社会是垂死的行将灭亡的社会,由于其自身以小农业和家庭手工业相结合的自给自足的自然经济基础非常牢固,无法通过自身的发展而实现向高一级文明制度的过渡,于是在鸦片战争这个外力的作用下,内部矛盾激化,导致太平天国革命,使腐朽的封建统治摇摇欲坠,最后在中日战争这个外力的最后一击之下将彻底崩溃。

Marx and Engels concluded that China’s feudal society was dying because its natural economic basis of small-scale farming and family handicraft prevented its transition to a senior civilization. Pressed by the external force of Opium War, its internal contradictions became acute, and resulted in Taiping Revolution, greatly increasing the collapse of the feudal rule. Eventually this corrupt system would come to an end under the attack of Sino-Japanese War of 1894~1895.