[编者按]关于马克思主义文艺理论,学术界经过多年的研究,有着一些共同的看法,它应该包括这样几个部分:第一,马克思和恩格斯关于文学艺术的论述。这些论述散见在他们的著作和通信之中,本身不是系统的专著,但其中有着成体系的思想。第二,一些国外学者,特别是20世纪中叶以来的国外学者,其中包括苏联和东欧的学者、西欧和北美的学者,依据马克思主义经典作家的论述所作的发展和发挥。第三,马克思主义传入中国以后,中国文学理论家根 [Editor’s note] With regard to the theory of Marxist literature and art, after years of research, the academic world has some common views. It should include such parts as follows: First, Marx and Engels’s discourse on literature and art. These discourses are scattered among their writings and correspondences and are not systematic monographs in their own right, but they have a system of ideas. Second, some foreign scholars, especially those from the mid-20th century, including academics in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe and scholars in Western Europe and North America, have made their development and play based on the discussion of classical Marxist writers. Third, after the introduction of Marxism into China, the Chinese literary theorists are rooted