早在19世纪50年代,马克思、恩格斯就对鸦片战争的性质作了科学的论断。马克思指出:“非法的鸦片贸易是以年年靠摧残人命和败坏道德来充实英国国库的事情”,鸦片战争“是一场极端不义的战争”和。海盗战争”。但是,外国资产阶级的学者和中国的买办文人则极力歪曲鸦片战争的性质。他们把这次战争称为“通商战争”,把我争的发生,归于中国“通商制度不合理”,“中国官吏知识的幼稚”,以及林则徐在禁烟问题上不察外情,操之过急所引起的,如英国海军军官宾汉认为引起战 As early as the 1850s, Marx and Engels made a scientific conclusion about the nature of the Opium War. Marx pointed out: “The illegal opium trade is a matter of enriching the British treasury by criminals and corrupting their morality every year.” The Opium War is “an extremely injustice war.” Pirate war. “However, foreign bourgeois scholars and Chinese comprador writers tried to distort the nature of the Opium War, calling the war a” war of trade “and attributing my dispute to China’s” unreasonable commercial system “ , ”Naive Chinese officials and knowledge", and Lin Zexu on the issue of smoking ban on the outsource, caused by too hurried, such as the British Navy officer Bin Han that cause war