论太平天国运动的两重性

On Duality of Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement

不能简单地肯定或简单地否定太平天国运动,应在辩证唯物主义指导下,一分为二地采取阶段论方法,以1856年的天京变乱为标志,对太平天国运动进行评价。前期运动代表农民阶级利益,必须给予充分肯定。后期运动抛弃了农民阶级利益,实行洪氏家族的封建统治,必须给予否定。总体评价,太平天国功大于过。

To make proper evaluations of Taiping Heavenly Kingdom must be done under the guidance of dialectical materialism. We may divide the movement into two stages marked by Beijing Uprising in 1856. The early movement stands for the interests of the peasant class, which should be definitely affirmed, while its later movement abandoned the interests of the peasant class by beginning the feudal rule of the Hongs, which must be negated completely.