马克思和恩格斯一向关心中国的革命运动,在十九世纪五十年代以后,写过许多文章称赞太平天国革命运动,斥责英国的鸦片贸易和英法联军对中国的侵略。可是,当时以及过后许多年,中国人还不知道马克思主义,甚至马克思的名字也未有所闻。1884年后康有为写的《大同书》中虽然提到了欧洲当时的“工人联党之争”和“均产(误共产为均产)之学益盛,”但他也不知道马克思主义。直到1899年4月出版的中文杂志《万国公报》第123期上的《大同学》一文中,才第一次提到了马克思的名字,文中说:“有讲求安民新学之一派,为德国之马客偲??安民新学即社会主义,马客偲即马克思)1902年梁启超在 Marx and Engels have always been concerned about China’s revolutionary movement. Since the 1850’s, many articles have been written praising the Taiping Revolutionary Movement, reprimanding Britain’s opium trade and the British-French aggression against China. However, at that time and many years afterwards, the Chinese still did not know Marxism and even Marx’s name was unheard of. In 1884, after written by Kang You-wei, although there was a reference to the then controversy of the Workers’ Party in Europe and the theory of “equal production (false co-production for all)” in “The Book of History,” he did not know about Marxism. Marx’s name was not mentioned for the first time in the essay “Grand Class” published in the Chinese magazine Gazette No. 123 of April 1899, in which he said: "There is one school that emphasizes the study of the new people of An Min for the German Ma Ke 偲 ?? An Min new school that socialism, Ma Ke 偲 that Marx) 1902 Liang Qichao at