The historical materialism is based on the study of the development of societies, determining which are the mechanisms that enable the origin, evolution and death of a society is, this philosophy seeks to explain the causes of a society communist pass to be a A slave society, after being a slave it becomes a feudal society, after a feudal society a capitalist one walks and from a capitalist one to a socialist one.
Historical materialism does not contradict or reject the existence or function of thought and consciousness, likewise it does not deny that human beings have specific ideas and proceed according to certain conceptions, but rather shows that such conceptions according to the material organization of the society. The fundamental principle of historical materialism encompasses all the material conditions that comprise it, that is, man organizes production in a certain way, likewise manages to enter into fixed relations of production. society, the foundation on which legal bodies are builtand political, to which corresponds certain ways of social consciousness.
The means of making use of material life limits the process of social, political and spiritual life. Productive streams can develop only when old production links are renewed by newer and more developed ones. It is at this historical point where the birth of a new society is confirmed. As the economic structure is modified, the entire enormous super structure built on it is revolutionized, it is important to take into account that for a society to disappear, all the production forces found in it must first be developed, the emergence of new relations of production is impossible. production before material conditionsfor their survival they have matured sufficiently within the past society.
