The Category Of "Material Production" In Marx And Engels

The product of materials is not only the base of social life and human history, but also logical start of historical materialism. By researching concretely on economy, politics and other relations in capitalistic society, Marx founded systems of theory about historical materialism from direct product of materials.The basic contents on the concept of product of materials is the point in this paper, it is the base of the social life and the critical element in historical development.The activity about product of materials is one of the most important and fundamental activities. Human beings have this kind of activity anytime and anywhere since they came into being. Recently, as the coming of the age of technologies and intellectual economy, product of materials itself has more and more contents .The point of this paper is how to explained the concept of product of materials correctly, which is the standard to judge the characters of social systems and the final base of product of minds. Marx indicates that product of materials restricts the whole social life and historical development by analyzing the contents of concept, but what characters does the traditional product of materials have in modern times? And what new contents does it have recently? The paper, on the base of thoughts from Marx, analyses the contents of product of materials, from the view of many kinds of elements.Hence defining social product of materials, the basic concept on historical materialism, expressing its contents wholly and opening up its interior relations has important theoretic and realistic meanings on comprehending intensely scientific systems of historical materialism and mastering the laws of social development.