The masses of the people refer to people who promote social history in a certain historical period. This is a historical category. In a certain historical period, the exploiting class can participate in and even lead the activities of social change on behalf of the new production relations, which belongs to the category of the people at that time.

The masses of the people qualitatively refer to all those who have promoted the development of social history, and quantitatively refer to the vast majority of the social population. In different historical periods, people have different contents, including different classes, strata and groups.

The most stable subject of the people will always be the working people and their intellectuals who are engaged in the production of material materials. In the process of historical development, the people play a decisive role.

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The contradictory movement between productive forces and production relations has promoted the development of society. All social contradictions are contradictions between people, and social contradictions can only be solved through human activities. The successful resolution of all social contradictions in history is essentially the struggle of the masses to overthrow the old social system.

The decisive role of the people in historical development is particularly prominent in the period of social change. After entering the socialist period, the people, as the decisive force of social change, have played a role in reforming, consolidating and perfecting the socialist system.