Social existence determines social consciousness example: old Wang's son grew up in a remote mountainous area, study hard, finally went to a good middle school.

Lao Li is a senior staff officer in a war zone, his son grew up with excellent educational resources, and later went to Tsinghua Primary School, the teacher asked them to use big data to study Su Shi, and they can all understand the routine.

And Lao Wang's son as a middle school student can not do, but for how to do production, especially breeding, farming, Lao Li's son did not know anything.

This major difference is a reference to the fact that social existence determines social consciousness, but of course you can also say that individual social existence determines individual social consciousness.

Social existence determines social consciousness is an important generalization of Marx's materialist thought.

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p>To understand this, it is important to make a distinction between materialism and materialism.

Commonly speaking, the essence of materialism and materialism is that matter and consciousness who is the source of the problem, materialists believe that the source of the world for the "matter", the matter is not limited to specific "things", referring to the vast majority of material and material conditions, the material structure and so on. The materialists believe that the source of the world is "matter".

Social existence determines social consciousness at the macro level. For example, when the world was dominated by capitalism, the capitalist mode of production and relations of production led to a relative overproduction in society.

Then the culture of consumerism becomes the dominant social consciousness, which is all about getting the common fart to pay for the capitalists' insanity.