人类知识积累到今天,进行任何科学研究,无论自觉与否,都离不开理论的指导。作为研究人类社会经济发展进程及其规律的经济史学,情形更是如此。经济史既是经济学的一个分支,又是历史学的一个分支。没有一定的史学理论和经济理论作指导,经济史研究就没有灵魂。当然,理论有精粗之分、正误之别。马克思主义是科学的思想体系,它不仅包含了作为科学世界观和方法论的历史唯物主义和辩证唯物主义,而且包含了揭示人类社会经济发展规 Accumulation of human knowledge to today, any scientific research, whether consciously or not, can not be separated from the guidance of the theory. This is even more so as the economic history study of the process and law of human social and economic development. Economic history is not only a branch of economics, but also a branch of history. Without a certain historical theory and economic theory as a guide, there is no soul in the study of economic history. Of course, the theory has fine points, right or wrong. Marxism is a scientific ideological system. It not only contains historical materialism and dialectical materialism as the scientific world outlook and methodology, but also contains elements that reveal the social and economic development of humankind