First, social existence refers to the process of social material life, and its basis and decisive force is the mode of production of material materials. Social consciousness refers to the spiritual life process of society, and broadly refers to all the ideological elements and ideologies of society, including social psychology and social ideology; In a narrow sense, it refers to the consciousness of social relations, namely ideology. Social existence is primary, which determines social consciousness, which reflects social existence and plays a role in promoting or hindering social existence.
Second, the so-called basic social contradiction refers to the contradiction that plays an overall braking role in the numerous contradictions of social organisms, that is, the contradiction between productivity and production relations, and the contradiction between economic base and superstructure. Contradictions that restrict other social contradictions and their movements exist in all societies, that is, the contradiction between social productive forces and production relations, and the contradiction between economic base and superstructure.
Third, the people are the creators of history and the main body of social and historical development. People are the creators of social material wealth and social spiritual wealth, and are the decisive force of social change. Therefore, the people are the fundamental driving force for creating history.
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Historical materialism:
Historical materialism is a set of theories about the development of human society in philosophy. 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. The mode of production of material life determines the general process of social life, political life and spiritual life.
Social existence (that is, social system and structure, as well as various elements that constitute society) determines social consciousness (that is, consciousness, requirements, thoughts, etc.). That is accompanied by system structure), and social consciousness can shape and change social existence.
The contradiction between productivity and production relations (the relationship between the owner of production factors and the provider of productivity), the contradiction between economic base (and the form of economic organization revealed by productivity and production relations) and superstructure can be used as the starting point for studying social development.
If we look at social organizations from the perspective of class, in class society, the basic social contradictions are manifested in the game of different interests of people of different classes, and class struggle is the direct driving force for the development of class society; Class struggle may trigger social revolution and seize state power.
References:
Historical materialism-Baidu Encyclopedia