宗族社会初论

A Preliminary View of Patriarchal Society

马克思和恩格斯开创的社会形态研究 ,至恩格斯逝世为止并未成熟。列宁提出了“宗族社会”的概念 ,但没有来得及深入研究。斯大林草率地将基本生产关系定为五种。郭沫若将“五阶段”视作研究历史的“先决条件” ,预伏了中国上古史研究的不幸。凡读过先秦典籍而又研究过马克思主义理论的人 ,都有一个“亚细亚形态情结” ,这一情结至今尚未解开。解开这一情结的关键 ,在于重新认定列宁当年提出的“宗族社会” ,实是一种基本的社会形态。

The study of social formation established by Marx and Engels remained immature even when Engels passed away. Then, Lenin brought forward the conceprtion of 'patriarchal society', but he failed to make a deep investigation of it. Even worse, Stalin rashly grouped basic productive relations into five patterns. Based on his five_pattern division, Kuo Mo_jo held up 'the five stages' as prerequisite terms for history study, which sowed the evil seeds for the study of Chinese prehistoric history. Thus, it is not exaggarating to say that nearly all those who have read the pre_Qin classics as well as Marxism have a 'Asian complex' in the depths of their minds, which remains untied there even up to now. The key to untie the complex lies in a re_affirmation that the 'patriarchal society' raised then by Lenin actually refers to a basic social formation.