胡绳同志不仅是一位马克思主义的历史学家和哲学家,而且是一位马克思主义的政治家、评论家。从青年时代起,他就写下了一系列思想文化评论和时事政治评论,这些评论性文章文笔犀利,短小精悍,论述精当,鞭辟人里,给人留下深刻印象。我尤其喜欢读他所写的思想文化评论,这些文章或对文化学术界的代表人物及其著作进行评价,每一篇都写得有理有据,令人信服。比如他在《我对于现阶段中国思想的意见》一文中,针对有人把思想界的危机归结为各种思想的对立与分歧,他指出,历史上文化最灿烂的 Comrade Hu Yao is not only a Marxist historian and philosopher, but also a Marxist politician and critic. Since his youth, he has written a series of ideological and cultural comments and current affairs political commentary. These commentary articles are very sharp and brief, they are exquisitely elaborated, and they are highly regarded. I especially like to read the ideological and cultural reviews he wrote. They give an assessment of the representatives of cultural and academic circles and their writings, and each one is well-founded and convincing. For example, in his article “My Opinion on China’s Thought at This Stage,” in the light of the fact that some people put the crisis in the ideological field at the confrontation and disagreement of various ideologies, he pointed out that the most brilliant culture in history