谢霖同志的这部学术专著是在当代世界格局发生剧烈变化、人们越来越关注东方社会的发展道路和社会主义的历史命运的形势下出版的。在这里,我想简要地谈谈该书主要的研究成果和特点。 一、关于亚细亚生产方式与农村公社的关系问题。谢霖同志是通过马克思对农村公社的研究来考察马克思亚细亚生产方式概念的起源、形成和发展的,把亚细亚生产方式概念的研究建立在对历史资料充分分析的基础上,避免了过去那种抽象的概念推演。作者对马克思关于农村公社的思想作了较为深入的探索。他不仅提到马克思1843年的《克罗茨纳赫笔记》、1846年的《德意志意识形 This academic monograph by Comrade Xie Lin was published under the circumstances of drastic changes in the pattern of the contemporary world and people paying more and more attention to the development path of the eastern society and the historical fate of socialism. Here, I want to briefly talk about the book’s main research findings and characteristics. First, on the relationship between Asian mode of production and rural communes. Through the study of Marx’s rural commune, Comrade Xie Lin inspected the origin, formation and development of the concept of Marxism-Asia’s mode of production. The study of the concept of Asian mode of production was based on a thorough analysis of historical data and avoided the abstraction in the past The concept of deduction. The author made a more in-depth exploration of Marx’s thought about rural commune. He not only referred to Marx’s “Croszach Notes” of 1843, "Deutsche Ideology