新时期我国学术界对社会形态演变规律的探索主要观点有 :五种社会形态论、三种社会形态论、六种社会形态论、四种社会形态论和多种社会形态论。这些学术观点丰富了马克思主义的社会形态理论 ,但又有不同程度的局限性。因此 ,立足于对马克思恩格斯经典文本的当代解读 ,人类社会历史的发展可概括为三大社会形态的依次演进、五种社会制度的相继更替、五种社会经济形态的先后出现。如此理解马克思社会形态演变规律理论 ,从逻辑上和理论上有其合理性 ,并有其实践意义 The main viewpoints of our academic circles on the evolution of social patterns in the new period are: five social modalities, three social modalities, six social modalities, four social modalities and various social modalities. These academic views have enriched the Marxist theory of social forms, but have different degrees of limitations. Therefore, based on the contemporary interpretation of the classic texts of Marx and Engels, the development of the history of human society can be summarized as the sequential evolution of the three major social forms, the successive replacement of the five social systems and the successive appearance of the five social economic forms. Therefore, to understand Marx’s theory of the evolution of social forms has its rationality and logic in theory and in practice.