The masses of the people are a historical category, which refers to all people who have played a role in promoting social history. In class society, it includes all classes, strata and social groups that promote historical development. Everyone includes both those who promote social history and those who hinder it.

Historical materialism holds that people are the creators of history. Engels once said: historical activities are the cause of the masses. It is the "moving masses" that determine the historical development. The people are a historical category. Qualitative refers to all people who promote social and historical development, and quantitative refers to the vast majority of the social population.

In different historical periods, people have different contents, including different classes, strata and groups. The most stable subject of the people will always be the working people and their intellectuals who are engaged in the production of material materials. In the process of historical development, the people play a decisive role.

People are the creators of social material wealth and social spiritual wealth, and are the decisive force of social change.

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The establishment of historical materialism scientifically solved the basic problem of the historical view of the relationship between social existence and social consciousness for the first time, thus establishing a scientific historical view of the masses and truly uncovering the true face of social and historical development.

Historical materialism holds that the mode of production of social material materials is the decisive force for the development of human society, and in the mode of production, productivity is the most active and revolutionary factor, the ultimate decisive force for the development of human society and the foundation of all historical development.

Starting from this basic point, it is inevitable to draw a correct conclusion: the history of mankind is first of all the history of production development, of course, that is, the history of producers of material materials as the basic force in the production process, and the history of the broadest masses of the people representing the requirements of the development of productive forces, and the masses are the creators of history.

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Baidu encyclopedia-people