谭嗣同是一位典型的改良主义者

Tan Sitong: a Typical Reformist

史学界一般将谭嗣同定位为资产阶级民主主义革命派或改良运动左派人物,这一观点有失偏颇。谭嗣同是一位典型的改良主义者,其根据有二:其一,谭嗣同和梁启超在戊戌变法时期,其思想均未越出康有为的变法轨道;其二,在1898年之后,惟有梁启超才真正继承了谭嗣同的思想,而将谭嗣同奉为旗帜的革命派,其主张与谭的思想只是"形似而实不是"。革命派扬嗣同而抑康梁,不仅是对康、梁、谭个人之不公,而且也混淆了革命派与改良派的真实界限。

Historians usually regard Tan Sitong as a bourgeoisie democratic revolutionary or a leftist among the reformists, but this opinion is biased. Tan was a 'typical' reformist, for 1^(st), his and Liang Qichao's thoughts never went beyond Kang Youwei's reforming ideas in the period of reformation; 2^(nd), only Liang truly inherited Tan's ideas after 1898 while the revolutionaries, who viewed Tan as the vanguard, were only 'superficial similar to Tan in thoughts while at odds with Tan in fact'.The revolutionaries' praise of Tan above Kang and Liang not only did unjustice to Kang, Liang and Tan, but slurred the real demarcation between the revolutionaries and the reformists as well.