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.
In some countries, the social form has rapidly changed from relatively backward to advanced in a certain period of time, while in some countries, the social form has long been confined to stagnation or even changed from advanced to long-term backwardness. Even the same social form will show different characteristics in different countries.
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".
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The development of social form is driven by the contradictory movement of productive forces and relations of production, economic base and superstructure.
The division of technological social forms is based on productivity, technological development level and corresponding industrial structure. In terms of production tools, human beings have experienced the Stone Age, Bronze Age, Iron Age, age of steam, Electrical Age and Electronic Age.
Looking at these times from another angle, it presents a sequence of scientific and technological social forms: fishing and hunting society-agricultural society-industrial society-information society.
Because the information society has many unheard-of new features, although people have lived in the information society for a long time, knowledge has indeed become the driving force of the economy and society. In the information society, people are engaged in systematizing the production of knowledge and constantly developing their intelligence.
The starting point of information society economy is not capital but knowledge, and knowledge, especially scientific and technological knowledge, has changed from an affiliated factor of production to an independent factor of production. The new strength no longer comes from the money in the hands of a few people, but from the information in the hands of many people. It is information rather than capital that plays a greater role in society. It is information that dominates capital, not capital that dominates information.
The theory of bipolar world holds that the static classification and sequence of social form in Marxist social form theory are worth inheriting, but the dynamic theory of social form which changes and develops due to the contradictory movement of productive forces and production relations needs to be developed.
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