经济基础的定义与社会主义初级阶段经济基础的界定

马克思唯物史观对“经济基础”的经典定义重在提示其本质是生产关系，即物质关系、经济关系。经典定义是“经济基础”最普遍和最一般。这是建立唯物史观，反对各种唯心史观的需要。后人的阐发定义侧重于说明人类社会以往历史形态的经济基础的本质，只能是该社会诸多生产关系中“占统治”(或“占主体”)地位的生产关系，这是经济基础普遍和一般。当代中国社会主义“初级阶段”经济基础是特殊和个别，对这一范畴界定应从“初级阶段”社会生产力的状况以及诸多生产关系，特别是非“主体”地位生产关系的特殊性出发。界定这一范畴有重要的理论和实践意义。

The Definition of Economic Foundation and the Defining of "Economic Foundation of the Primary Stage of Socialism"

Marxist materialistic historical outlook gives the classic definition of "economic foundation" to indicate that its essence is productive relationship, i.e. material relationship and economic relationship. The classic definition, the most general and universal, is the requisite of establish materialistic historical outlook and opposing various kinds of idealistic historical outlook. Some later illustrations of the definition account for the fact that the essence of economic foundation of the previous historical forms is only a dominant productive one among various relationships, and that the foundation is general and universal. The economic foundation of the present China's primary stage of socialism is particular and specific. So, to define the foundation involves taking into account the real economic situation and various productive relationships of the primary stage, especially the non-principal relationship. The defining of this category is of key theoretical and practical significance.