美国东方学家卡尔·魏特夫在《东方专制主义》中提出“东方国家起源于‘治水’；东方国家的进程是原地循环”两个论题。本文主要对第一个论题进行分析，指出：治水不是东方国家的始基，东方国家的产生是出于经济和阶级原因。文章批驳了魏特夫否认国家产生的一般规律的观点 American Orientalist Karl Weittu in the “Oriental authoritarianism” put forward "the Eastern countries originated in ’flood control’; the process of the Eastern countries are in situ circulation of the two topics. This paper mainly analyzes the first topic, pointing out that it is not the beginning base of the Eastern countries that water is controlled, but the Eastern countries are born out of economic and class reasons. The article criticizes Wittoff’s denial of the general laws that the country produces