马克思晚年试图开辟出东方社会独特的发展道路，提出了东方社会发展道路的理论。一个多世纪以来，马、恩、列、斯、毛等几代伟大的马克思主义者对这一课题进行了艰苦卓绝的探索，使这一理论不断充实和发展。然而，最终邓小平以其创立的有中国特色的社会主义理论对这一课题作出了较为完满的答案。 In his later years, Marx attempted to open up a unique way of development for the oriental society and put forward the theory of the development path of the eastern society. For more than a century, many generations of great Marxists such as Ma, Ehren, Leh, Sri Lanka and Mao conducted an arduous exploration of this issue, enriching and developing this theory. However, in the end, Deng Xiaoping made a fairly complete answer to this question with the socialist theory that he founded with Chinese characteristics.