1, simple materialism. Simple materialism is also called "simple materialism" and spontaneous materialism. Naive materialism affirmed the material origin and unity of the world. Due to the limitation of knowledge level, a certain or specific material form is always regarded as the material origin and unified material basis of the world.

2. Historical materialism. Historical materialism: it is a set of philosophic theories about the development of human society. Historical materialism points out that the fundamental cause of all historical events is material richness, and the development of social history has its inherent objective laws.

3. Modern metaphysics. There are broad sense and narrow sense. In a broad sense, it refers to the materialist philosophy that explains the universe from a metaphysical point of view. In a narrow sense, it refers to the second form of materialism in the history of western philosophy, namely16-18th century materialism philosophy.