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.
4. All social systems and social forms are temporary stages in the endless development process 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. Social relations should mature from the old society under certain material conditions, and social forms will only perish when all the productive forces it contains are brought into play.
5. The concrete social form existing in reality is complicated. At every stage of the development of human society, there are not only the dominant social forms, but also the remnants and buds of other social forms.
6. The general law of human society is from primitive society to slavery, feudalism and capitalism to socialist and communist society. This is a natural historical development process, and social productive forces are the fundamental driving force to promote social and historical progress.
7. The history of human society is an objective development process that is independent of the subjective consciousness of researchers and has certain regularity. When people study history and explore social laws, they must proceed from objective historical facts, possess materials in detail, analyze its various development forms, reveal its internal relations and get corresponding results.
8. Human society and its components exist in a holistic and systematic way, so we should proceed from the whole research object, from the interaction and contradiction within the research object and the interaction between the research object and the external environment.
9. In the objective historical process, all social and historical factors are interactive.
10. Human society moves regularly, developing from low level to high level. It appears as a historical process, and various social phenomena that constitute the historical process are also moving and developing. We should look at everything in history from the perspective of development, grasp the essential relationship and internal contradictions of the object from the perspective of dialectics, mention the research object in a certain range, and analyze the specific problems in detail, so as to accurately grasp the object.
1 1. There are two ways to develop and change social and historical things: evolution (reform) and revolution.
12, the root of social and historical development is its complex internal and external contradictions.
origin
The attempt to analyze history by scientific and materialistic methods originated in France during the Enlightenment, which was closely related to the philosophers Montesquieu and condorcet and the physiocrats. Turgut and other thinkers.
meaning
Historical materialism provides people with a correct understanding of social phenomena and the law of social and historical development. It reveals that the movement of basic social contradictions is the fundamental driving force of social development. This view provides a scientific basis for understanding the development law of human society and demonstrating the emergence, development and demise of capitalist society, thus correcting the defect that utopian socialists condemn the capitalist system only from the abstract rational principle.
It reveals that class struggle is the direct driving force for the development of class society, and corrects the fantasy that utopian social justice people want the rulers to be kind and realize the blueprint of social change in a peaceful way.
It reveals that the people are the creators of history, overcomes the limitation that utopian socialists regard the proletariat only as a suffering class, and places the hope of historical progress and social replacement on a few talented people. Therefore, historical materialism is the cornerstone of socialism from fantasy to science.