1. The root cause of all historical events is the richness of materials, 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;
2. Social existence (that is, social system and structure, as well as various elements that constitute society) determines social consciousness (that is, consciousness, demands, thoughts, etc.). That is accompanied by system structure), and social consciousness can shape and change social existence;
3. The contradiction between productivity and production relations (the relationship between the owner and producer of production factors), the contradiction between economic base (and the economic organization form revealed by productivity and production relations) and superstructure can be used as the starting point for studying social development;
4. 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.
Historical materialism provides people with a correct understanding of social phenomena and the law of social and historical development, and reveals that the basic social contradiction movement is the fundamental driving force for 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 only condemn the capitalist system from the abstract rational principle.