社会主义的政府应当是积极而有限的，是马克思主义国家学说的基本观点。这是因为社会主义的制度创新和制度供给、社会主义生产力的迅速发展、更大规模基础上的公共管理和建立自由人联合体基础上的公共管理都需要积极而有限的政府发挥其应有的作用。马克思恩格斯预想的未来社会主义的政府，既不是无限膨胀全职全能的大政府，也不是最弱意义上的尽量不管事的消极政府，而是积极有限并且有效的政府 The socialist government should be positive and limited, and is the basic point of view of Marxist state theory. This is because the institutional innovation and institutional supply of socialism, the rapid development of socialist productive forces, the public administration on a larger scale and the public administration based on the establishment of a free association require active and limited government to play its due role effect. The future socialist government envisioned by Marx and Engels is neither a government of unlimited expansion of full-time and omnipotent governments nor a passive government that tries not to do anything in the weakest sense but an actively limited and effective government