社会历史发展“五形态论”是我国理论界和史学界普遍流行的观点。坚持这种观点的同志通常认为,“五形态论”是马克思和恩格斯在《德意志意识形态》中提出的。通过考察《德意志意识形态》中的有关论述,可以发现,马克思恩格斯并未提出什么五形态论,而只是隐约提出了三大社会形态理论,即前资本主义阶段和资本主义阶段,再加上共产主义社会,整个人类社会表现为这三大阶段的依次更替过程。 The “Five-Form Theory” of Social and Historical Development is a popular view among theorists and historians in our country. The comrades who persist in this view usually hold the view that “five forms of theory” was proposed by Marx and Engels in the “German Ideology.” By examining the relevant discourse in “German Ideology,” we can see that Marx and Engels did not propose any five-form theory, but just vaguely proposed three major social formation theories: the pre-capitalist phase and the capitalist phase, The society as a whole and the entire human society are shown as the sequential replacement process of these three stages.