对比太平天国与清王朝,两集团政治、经济、文化本质相似,都没有突破封建的传统；两集团内部分化出的新生力量尝试引进新学,不约而同地迈开了走向新时代的步伐。太平天国的历史作用不在于“运动”本身“革命”,而在于引发了“生死竞争”,迫使不同营垒中的开明之士顺应历史发展方向,推动了中国现代化的起步,验证了特殊环境下阶级斗争的作用。 Compared with the Taiping and the Qing dynasties, the political, economic and cultural similarities between the two groups did not break the tradition of feudalism. The new forces that were differentiated within the two groups tried to introduce new sciences and spontaneously embarked on a move toward a new era. The historic role of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom does not lie in the “revolution” of “the movement” but in the “competition of life and death.” It forces the enlightened people in different camps to follow the direction of historical development, promotes the starting of China’s modernization, and verifies the class struggle under special circumstances Role.