一、社会形态的界定推动人类历史发展的动力之一是人的需要,需要推动人们与自然作斗争,从事劳动,并形成人与人之间的相互关系。这样,生产力与生产关系同人类社会俱来。生产力是标志人类社会发展的根本尺度,只有从生产力的角度才能对人类社会作出精确的描述。列宁说:“只有把社会关系归结于生产关系,把生产关系归结于生产力的高度,才能有可靠的根据把社会形态的发展看作自然历史过程。”而生产关系只不过是生产力的社会形式而已,马克思一般都 I. Definition of Social Form One of the motivations for promoting the historical development of mankind is human needs. It is necessary to promote people’s struggle with nature, work in labor and form the inter-relationship between people. In this way, the relations between productivity and production are the same as human beings. Productivity is the fundamental measure of the development of human society. Only from a productivity perspective can we accurately describe human society. Lenin said: “Only when the social relations are attributed to productive relations and the productive relations attributed to the height of productive forces can we have a credible basis for the development of social forms as a natural historical process.” The relations of production are but social forms of productive forces Mostly Marx