Marx‘View on the Public Ownership of Land in the Eastern Society’

The western scholars hold the general view that the fundamental difference between eastern society and western society is that the eastern society implements the public ownership of land while the western society implements private ownership.Marx concluded that no existence of private ownership of land was the key to understanding to the eastern society and made further analysis of the eastern society from the perspective of public ownership of land.But Marx in his old age had the new view of the land system,thinking that the private from of eastern land started to appear and discovered that the east land system had duality and that human commonly experienced the public ownership of land in the early times.On the basis of criticizing Russian populists'thought about the public ownership in his old age,he started to consider the public ownership of eastern land as the basic point of transition to the socialism.