A Research Into The Thoughts Of Historical Materialism In The German Ideology

German ideology is a philosophical works which finished by Marx and Engels. Historical materialism is described in the book for the first time. It marks the creation of historical materialism. German ideology contains abundant thoughts about historical materialism:the theory about basic problems of social and history, the theory about the premise of social and history, the theory about the basis of social and history, the theory about the hierarchy of social and history, the theory about the evolution of social and history, the theory about the decision criteria of social and history, the theory about the individual of social and history, the theory about the history of the world, etc. Each argument in the German ideology has a relatively complete instructions. The creation of the historical materialism is a result of Marx and Engels' learning and exploring by many years. There are closely linked between the thoughts of Marx and Engels and the thoughts of Youth Hegel. This is a process of splitting and construction in the field of thought. As the same time, the thoughts of Marx and Engels achieve the change to the historical materialism. The research about the evolution of Marx and Engels' thoughts is helpful for the research about historical materialism in German ideology. As the most distinctive and decisive theory, the historical materialism has a guiding significance to the construction of socialism with Chinese characteristics.