西欧是资本主义现代化的发祥地.18世纪末,“当革命的风暴横扫整个法国的时候,英国正在进行一场比较平静的但是威力并不因此减弱的变革.蒸汽和新的工具机把工场手工业变成了现代的大工业,从而把资产阶级社会的整个基础革命化了.”资本主义工业化和政治现代化从此蓬勃开展.英、法、德三国在实现经济现代化和政治现代化的过程中,各具特色.对它们进行比较研究,从而探索两个现代化之间的关系,得出一般性的结论,对我们今天社会主义现代化建设——现代化经济和“在政治上创造比资本主义国家的民主更高更切实的民主”——不无裨益. Western Europe was the cradle of capitalist modernization. “As the storm of revolution swept through France at the end of the 18th century, England was undergoing a calmer but not diminishing change of power: steam and new machine tools turned the workshop handicraft industry into Modernized large industries and thus revolutionized the entire basis of bourgeois society. ”Capitalist industrialization and political modernization have flourished since then, and Britain, France and Germany have their own unique characteristics in the process of economic and political modernization. To conduct a comparative study of them so as to explore the relationship between the two modernizations and come to a general conclusion that is of great value to us in today’s socialist modernization drive - the modernization of the economy and the creation of a political higher than the democracy of capitalist countries Democracy "- not without merit.