What is the historical type of a country?

The historical type of a country refers to a state form with the same class nature based on the same type of social production relations in a certain historical period. Since the emergence of class society, human society has experienced four social forms, and accordingly there have been four types of countries, namely, countries where the slave owner class is dominant, countries where the landlord class is dominant, countries where the bourgeoisie is dominant, and countries where the proletariat and the broad masses of working people are dominant. The first three historical types of countries are generally called exploiters. The fourth is the socialist country, which is the highest and last historical country and a brand-new national form.

Historical types

1, slave country. It is a tool used by slave owners to oppress and rule slaves, and it maintains the exploitation form of slavery. It is a superstructure based on the slave ownership economy.

2. Feudal countries. It was a tool used by the feudal landlord class to oppress and rule farmers. It maintains the form of feudal exploitation and is a superstructure built on the basis of feudal economy.

3. Capitalist countries. It is a country against feudalism established after the victory of the bourgeois revolution, and it is a tool to safeguard the capitalist relations of production and the fundamental interests of the bourgeoisie.

4. Socialist countries. It is based on the contradiction between the private possession of the means of production and the socialization of production in capitalist society, established by the proletariat representing the new productive forces according to the fundamental interests of the proletariat and the broad masses of working people, and is a political form based on the socialist economy.

The general law of national historical replacement

The replacement of national historical types is a development process from low to high. The main reason is that the economic base determines the superstructure due to the development of productive forces. Type replacement is usually carried out through revolution, reform or war, and some laws or systems have been established and consolidated.

The two-party system is characterized by

Even, mutual supervision and taking turns to be in power are essentially the same, but their expressions are different.