《水浒传》中梁山聚义替天行道攻打官府的运动,到底是什么性质的,古往今来争论不休。古代文人多认为是忠义行为,也有部分正统文人认为是叛逆造反;上世纪20年代开始有人提出农民革命的说法,之后这一说法成为主导,似是不易之论;到了80年代才有人开始提出流民起义、忠义之举、武侠行为、反叛法律等非农民起义的观点。基于此,从传播学的视角对学术界关于《水浒传》梁山聚义性质的研究进行了解读分析,认为《水浒传》梁山聚义性质的研究是一个假命题,由于人们的错误理解而进入《水浒传》研究的范畴,再加上我国文史不分的传统、阶级分析法的引进和政治形势使然,使得这一命题的研究俨然成了现实中《水浒传》研究的必然议题。
What on earth is the quality of gathering for justice on Liangshan Mountain in The Water Margin? Peo- ple have argued it for a long time. Most men of letters in history think it is right, but there are also some men of letters thinking it is wrong. Since 1980, some people have put forward the views of peasant revolt, and non-peas- ant revolt views, such as loyalty behavior, martial arts action, rebel law and so on. From the perspective of com- munication, this paper analyses the research of character of gathering for justice on Liangshan Mountaifi in The Water Margin in the academic community, which is proved to be false. Studies of this proposition has become the inevitable issue of The Water Margin due to wrong understanding of the research category into The Water Mar- gin, China's tradition of mixing literature and history, the introducing of class analysis method, and the political situation.