1. Production is the measure of all social progress in history, and the development level of social productive forces determines the progress of human society.
2. The relations of production that are compatible with the development of certain productive forces constitute the realistic basis of a certain social form and economic structure, and stipulate the main characteristics of the social form.
3. A certain social form is the unity of a certain economic base and a certain superstructure, and the nature of the economic base determines the changes of the superstructure. Superstructure serves the economic base and reacts on it.
All social systems and social forms are temporary stages in the endless development of human society from low level to high level. There is no eternal social system and form, and the prosperity of social system is the result of the development of basic social contradictions.
Extended data:
Use the word "historical materialism" to explain the occurrence of historical events: "It is believed that the ultimate cause and motive force of all important historical events are the economic development of society, the change of production mode and exchange mode, and the result of the division of society into different classes and the game between these classes." ?
The organizational form and requirements suitable for class are the main focus of class conflict. Marx's view of history transcends sociological research and historical research, and analyzes the causes of historical events from the perspective of class.
The method of historical materialism to investigate problems clearly stipulates that its research object is the general law of social development. Unlike the specific social science, which focuses on a local field and an individual aspect of social life, it focuses on the study of the general structure and development law of society as a whole. Its task is to provide the theoretical basis of historical view and methodology for each specific social science.
References:
Baidu encyclopedia-historical materialism