五十年前,馬克·吐温,这位美国杰出的批判現实主义作家,这位帝国主义侵略行徑和美国资本主义的虚假文明的揭露者,离开了人間。半个世紀过去了,吐溫对“金元帝国”的批判却和当年一样仍然具有强烈的現实意义。馬克·吐溫生活和創作的年代,正是美国內战以后資本主义迅速发展、并从自由资本主义跨进帝国主义的时期。吐溫亲眼看到資本主义在美国的发展过 Fifty years ago, Mark Twain, the United States prominent critic of realist writers, the unmasking of the imperialist aggression and the false civilization of American capitalism, left the world. Half a century later, Twain’s critique of the “Golden Empires” still has strong practical significance as in that same year. The era of life and creation by Mark Twain is the rapid development of capitalism after the U.S. civil war and the transition from free capitalism to imperialism. Twain saw with his own eyes the development of capitalism in the United States