The replacement characteristics of social form;

1, unity and diversity

As far as the social development process of different countries or nations is concerned, the situation is different. Some countries have experienced a typical process in which several social forms change in turn, and some countries have surpassed one or even several social forms in their development and achieved leap-forward development; In some countries, the nature of social form is not typical in a certain historical development stage, and even a variety of social form characteristics cross-infiltrate.

2, inevitability and selectivity

The objective inevitability of social form replacement mainly means that the process and laws of social form replacement exist objectively and the basic trend of its development is fixed. In the final analysis, the change of social form is the result of the basic social contradiction movement. Among them, the development of productive forces is of ultimate decisive significance.

3. Progress and vacillation.

The replacement of social forms is also manifested in the unity of historical progressiveness and stumbling, gradualism and leaping. The progress and gradual change of social forms mainly refers to the basic trend of the evolution of five social forms in turn, and its historical process is a process of "sublation".