Five stages in the evolution of social formations

The five stages in the evolution of social formations are: primitive society, slave society, industrial society stage, agricultural society stage, and feudal society.

1. Primitive Society

Primitive society is the earliest social form of mankind, which is based on hunting, fishing, and gathering, with an egalitarian way of distributing economic life, and social control maintained by tradition and parents.

Culturally, oral traditions and myths are the main features. Various forms of primitive societies exist throughout the world. Some primitive societies have maintained their egalitarian nature, while others have evolved into hierarchical societies with more complex forms of organization.

2. Slave societies

Slave societies were an important stage in the transformation of human society from primitive to complex societies. During this period, slavery was a very common institution, where slaves were deprived of their freedom and power, and were bought, sold and controlled as if they were objects.

Slavery is a form of society in which the means of production are owned by a few, and in which workers have no freedom and are forced to sell their labor and become the "private property" of their employers, and to produce from it.

3. Feudal society

Feudal society was a social form that developed on the basis of slave society and was characterized by the further development of the level of productive forces, an exploitative economic system based on the feudal system of the landowning class, and a political system based on the ruling structure of the feudal lords. Culturally it was characterized by the development of art, literature, religion and other forms.

4. The Agrarian Social Stage

The agrarian social stage is the first stage after mankind entered civilization, and one of the five stages in the evolution of social formations.

In this stage, human beings began to own fixed farmland and livestock, private property and commercial exchanges began to appear, the emergence of classes and division of labor, the emergence of cities and states, the beginning of the emergence of rights and the distribution of wealth also began to become unequal.

5. Industrial Society Stage

The Industrial Society Stage is one of the five stages in the evolution of social formations, the beginning of which is marked by the invention of the Watt steam engine. During this stage, industry emerged and continued to develop, and social wealth was created mainly by industry, while promoting the development of agriculture and further increasing the population.

The law of the jungle among individuals is further weakened. This stage is divided into two sub-stages, the capitalist society stage and the free competition society stage.