In the academic circles of Marxism, there has been a prevalent interpretation of Marx’s concept of history, which belonged to old materialism, taking history and nature separately and consequently. Since 1980’s, Hegelian interpretation became into being, in which history and nature were regarded as the one. However, as an achievement of the critique of Hegel’s concept, Marx’s concept of history transcends Hegel’s fundamentally. We can’t interpret Marx’s concept of history in a Hegelian way. The author firmly believe that it is a basic task of the research of Marxist philosophy today to transcend the horizon of Hegel’s philosophy and restore the true features of Marx’s thinking. Finally, the author tries to analyze the differences between Marx’s concepts of history and Hegel’s from the following four aspects, namely, the relation of history and nature, the limits of historical subject’s activity, continuity and discontinuity of history, historical reality and historical theory.
