恩格斯曾经说过:“民法准则只是以法律形式表现了社会的经济生活条件”。当前,作为我国“经济生活条件”的商品经济与过错责任原则的相互关系值得认真研究。特别是在党的十四大确立了社会主义市场经济的改革目标后,它无论是对促进社会主义市场经济建设,还是对丰富和完善我国的民法理论都有重要的现实意义。 Engels once said: “The civil law guidelines only represent the economic conditions of society in the form of law.” At present, the interrelationship between the commodity economy and the principle of liability for fault as our “economic and living conditions” deserves our careful study. Especially after the 14th Party Congress established the reform goal of the socialist market economy, it has important practical significance both for promoting the socialist market economy and for enriching and improving our country’s civil law theory.