As the decisive basis of social history, economic relations refer to the way people produce and exchange products with each other in a certain society (under the condition of division of labor). Therefore, it includes all technologies of production and transportation.
In addition, included in economic relations are the geographical basis on which these relations are based, the remnants of previous economic development stages inherited from the past (these remnants are often preserved only because of tradition or inertia), and of course, the external environment surrounding this social form.
However, science depends more on the situation and demand of technology. In the final analysis, economic conditions are regarded as things that restrict historical development. Race itself is an economic factor. The development of politics, law, philosophy, religion, literature, art and so on is based on economic development. However, they all interact and have an impact on the economic base.
No matter how much economic relations are influenced by other relations-political and ideological-it is still decisive in the final analysis, and it constitutes a red line that runs through and is only helpful for understanding. People create their own history, but so far, they have not created their own history according to the will of the same person, according to a plan of the same person, or even in a well-defined established society.
What is dominant is the inevitability of taking contingency as a supplement and expression. . The inevitability achieved here through various contingencies is, in the final analysis, economic inevitability.
Abstract: This paper expounds two important principles in historical materialism: one is the dialectical relationship between economic base and superstructure, and the other is the analysis of the relationship between contingency and inevitability in social and historical development. Therefore, the article is highly targeted and the main points are very prominent.