Historical materialism holds that the development of society, like nature, has objective laws, and social laws are not transferred by human will. At the same time, it also recognizes the influence of human conscious activities on social development. People's conscious activities include the understanding and application of social laws, which can accelerate or delay the process of social development.

The objectivity of social laws and people's conscious activities are unified. First of all, we can understand and apply objective laws through people's conscious activities, and build people's conscious activities on a solid and reliable basis.