关于马克思的历史唯物主义究竟是实证科学还是哲学,学者们展开了激烈的争论。[1]这场争论在一定程度上涉及到如何理解马克思对于社会历史规律的描述,涉及到如何理解马克思的社会历史研究方法以及马克思的社会历史研究的哲学性质。由于争论的需要而使某些问题在一定程度上被淡化处理,因而 About Marx’s historical materialism is empirical science or philosophy, scholars have heated debates. To some extent, this controversy involves how to understand Marx’s description of the law of social history and how to understand Marx’s social and historical research methods and the philosophical nature of Marx’s social and historical research. As a result of the controversy, some problems have been somewhat diluted