Karl Marx is one of the eminent German historian , economist,sociologist, etc. He followed the hegelians ideologies . He attributed new method for study history, society, economics called Historical materialism or materialist interpretation of history as a historical conception of materialism . Historical materialism is studying the relationship between human and materialist concept such as technologies, production etc.. In society people are making products for their livelihood . In order to make the production the people have a relationship between them .This type of relation is called production relation . production relation is determined by productive forces. Productive forces dividing the society into several modes of production. The modes of production is classifying civilization into :
1) Primitive communism
2)Ancient society
3) Feudalism
4) Capitalism
1) Diletical
2) organic unity
3) Base and superstructure
From this , base and superstructure is the central and rest of them are supporting to it.
Accirding to him Base : is supporting the superstructure ,and superstructure is the political state.
His important works are Das kapital, Communist manifesto . He believed in the surplus value , and he argued that his society is must be a stateless , classless one. In this way he give a various dimensions to history.
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