马克思、恩格斯和列宁在谈到未来社会发展阶段问题时曾作出过大致的设想和初步的探索。毛泽东在中国社会主义建设的过程中,对社会主义发展阶段也进行过有益的探索。邓小平在继承前人关于未来社会发展阶段理论的基础上,总结国内外在社会主义发展阶段问题上的经验教训,提出了有中国特色的社会主义初级阶段理论。 Marx, Engels and Lenin made general assumptions and preliminary exploration when it comes to the issue of the stage of social development in the future. During the course of socialist construction in China, Mao Zedong also conducted a useful exploration of the stage of socialist development. Deng Xiaoping inherited the predecessors’ theory on the stage of future social development, summed up the experience and lessons both at home and abroad in the stage of socialism development, and put forward the theory of the primary stage of socialism with Chinese characteristics.