Historical materialism insists that the people are the creators of history and opposes the view that historical idealism heroes create history.
When studying this section, we should understand that there are two fundamentally opposing views in the historical view, that is, the people are the creators and heroes of history, and we should specifically understand the role of the people and the role of historical figures in historical development, and master the mass views and mass lines of proletarian political parties.
Individuals and society are interdependent and mutually restrictive. People have various attributes. To sum up, human attributes can be divided into two categories, namely natural attributes and social attributes. Social attribute is the most important and fundamental attribute of human beings. Human social life is an organic whole composed of activities from all walks of life, and any individual's activities will always have one kind or another influence on social development. Personal activities and social development are interrelated and mutually restricted, and personal activities have a dynamic role in social development. All normal individuals always have to undertake certain tasks in social life and engage in such conscious and purposeful activities in their own posts, thus leaving their own marks in the process of social and historical development. Social development can only be realized through the conscious efforts of all social members. The history of the development of human society shows that: firstly, individuals and society are interdependent and inseparable. Society is composed of countless individuals. Man's survival is inseparable from society, and man's development needs various conditions provided by society. The existence and development of any society is the result of all individuals and their collective efforts, and the sum of all individual activities constitutes the overall movement and development of society. The second is to correctly understand and handle the relationship between individuals and society. Personal activity is not only a natural process of life, but also a historical process of social practice. In this historical process, everyone does not exist in isolation, and his activities are faced with the relationship between individuals and society. Therefore, correctly understanding and dealing with the relationship between individuals and society is not only an important condition for individuals' normal activities, but also the basis and premise for making life choices. Building a harmonious socialist society conforms to the basic principles of Marxism and the scientific assumption of Marxism on socialist society. Realizing social harmony and creating a bright future is always the social ideal pursued by human beings, as well as by Marxist political parties including China. Building a harmonious socialist society is related to the fundamental interests of the overwhelming majority of the people, to consolidating the social foundation of the party's governance, to realizing the historical task of the party's governance, to the process of building a well-off society in an all-round way, to the prosperity of the party's cause and to the long-term stability of the country. A harmonious socialist society is one characterized by democracy and the rule of law, fairness and justice, honesty and friendship, vitality, stability and order, and harmony between man and nature. To realize these characteristics of a harmonious society, it is necessary to deal with the relationship between individuals and society and promote the harmony between individuals and society, especially to adhere to the values of collectivism and establish a correct world outlook, outlook on life and values.
1, a correct understanding of the relationship between individuals and society is the basis and prerequisite for a correct choice of life.
(1) First of all, the relationship between an individual and society is the basic relationship of life. Without individuals, there is no society, and there is no individual who is purely isolated and completely divorced from society. Individuals and society are always closely related, influencing and restricting each other, which is the basic relationship of social life. The process of life is the practical process of constantly solving the relationship between individuals and society on the basis of real life. How to understand and treat the relationship between individuals and society is a judgment of outlook on life; Whether the choice of life value is the fundamental basis of science. The meaning of life lies in the relationship between them.
(2) Secondly, the contradiction between individuals and society is the basic contradiction of life. It is the foundation of the existence and development of life. Without this foundation, there is no life. It runs through the whole process of life development and is the fundamental driving force of life development. It is embodied in the contradiction between ideal and reality, individual and others, individual and collective, individual and country, self-value and social value, self-responsibility and social responsibility, self-cultivation and social norms. Life is the time of existence and development in the process of solving these contradictions.
It can be seen that the relationship between individuals and society is the basic relationship and contradiction of life. Only by correctly understanding the relationship between individuals and society can we make correct life choices.
The real value of life lies in the contribution to society.
(1) The proletarian outlook on life is essentially a question of dedication or obligation and responsibility to society. Many problems of life values are inseparable from this essential problem. Only by clarifying this issue theoretically and ideologically can we consciously make more contributions to society and others, and resist the wrong behavior of only taking and not contributing, only talking about rights and not obligations.
(2) To understand this problem, we should grasp the following points: ① the dialectical relationship between the two aspects of life value; 2. Dedication to society is the need of social existence and development, and it is the basic symbol of personal value, which embodies the unity of social value and self-value; ③ Correctly understand and handle three relationships: for oneself and others, material contribution and spiritual contribution, money and life value;
3. Understand the objective conditions for China to realize the value of life at this stage.
(1) It depends on the conditions. Social conditions include all aspects, which together constitute the objective conditions that affect the value of an individual's life, but each has its own characteristics, and individuals can consciously choose and use it.
(2) We should not only see the material conditions, but also the spiritual conditions. Some people often only see the country's economic situation and personal treatment, but ignore the development of the socialist system and spiritual civilization, complain about others, and are pessimistic and disappointed, which hinders the realization of the value of life.
(3) Advantages and disadvantages are always relative, not static. Since the reform and opening up, realistically speaking, society has created much better conditions for everyone to realize the value of life than in the past. Although there are still many unsatisfactory places, the overall development trend is getting better and better.