梁启超在护国运动时期的政论中,不但不承认护国运动是一次革命,反而称袁世凯为“革命者”。这一现象生动地反映出改良派在理论上一贯反对革命,而在实践上由于顽固保守派的逼迫又不得不走向革命的痛苦历程,这种自相矛盾的境地迫使梁启超提出一个似是而非的革命概念来自圆其说。通过对这一概念及其历史背景的剖析,可以深刻揭示出在保守势力强大顽固的近代中国,改良的道路实际上寸步难行。当前学界颇为流行的否定革命的思潮中存在着对复杂历史作简单化理解的倾向,坚决反对革命的梁启超尚且发动护国革命,可见告别革命并不容易。 Liang Qichao did not recognize the National Protective Movement as a revolution in his political debate during the Huoguo National Movement but instead called Yuan Shikai “a revolutionary.” This phenomenon vividly reflects that the reformists have consistently opposed the revolution in theory and in practice they have to resort to the painful course of the revolution because of the persecution of conservatives. This self-contradiction has forced Liang Qichao to come up with a paradoxical concept of revolution Come from the round. Through the analysis of this concept and its historical background, it can profoundly reveal that in the modern China where the conservative forces are stubborn and stubborn, the road to reform can not actually be carried forward. At present, there is a tendency of simplifying the understanding of complex history in the trend of denying the revolution, which is popular in the current academic circle. It resolutely opposes the revolutionary Liang Qichao and launches the revolution of national protection. It is therefore not that easy to say goodbye to the revolution.