邓小平继承和发展了马克思恩格斯的两极分化思想。在他的理论视域中,两极分化与收入差距是两个相互联系但又不能混同的概念。两极分化是概括特定社会本质的范畴,而收入差距则是反映某种社会现象的范畴;前者与特定的生产关系(私有制)相联系,后者普遍存在于各种生产关系条件下。 Deng Xiaoping inherited and developed Marx and Engels’ thought of polarization. In his theoretical perspective, the polarization and income gap are two interrelated concepts that can not be confused with each other. Polarization is a category that generalizes the nature of a particular society, while income disparity is a category that reflects a social phenomenon; the former is linked to a particular productive relationship (private ownership), the latter prevailing under various conditions of production relations.