historical process is highly variable, sometimes abruptly, sometimes evolutionary, and at all times falls into stagnation.However, the age-old question is, what is the driving force of history.The question of the direction of these forces gave many answers, and very different in meaning from the wildly optimistic to gloomy doomed, with elements of utopianism.
In ancient times, not only of antiquity, was very popular belief that humanity is on the "golden" century to its decline.Sustained driving forces of progress and lead people to extreme physical relief work, the emergence of computers deprives a person of mental exploration and stops the vertical direction of development.This, of course, an extreme point of view of the consequences of progress, but there is bit of truth here.In the history of development are the driving forces of the productive forces, and therefore, their improvement leads to further successful development of the mankind with some nuances geographical and national character.In other words, the method of production and implies a certain degree of progress.The driving forces are the different factors, but mainly scientific and technical progress in all spheres of society.
In the ancient world the main way of production was slave labor, until that time, he was quite productive and meet the needs of those societies.Gradually, however, the axiom that a slave can not work productively, for it is not interested in the results of their labor, he prevailed and slavery came to replace more progressive feudal mode of production.Of course, he was more productive in the first stages of its existence, but due to personal lack of freedom of the peasants is also becoming unproductive in its extreme extent.Further, the action takes the capitalist mode of production, are already personally interested in a free producer result of their work, which means that there is a need to consolidate the right to the means of production, which would further enhance this effect.
general progress - two-way process and acts selectively.Human development does not mean that all societies are progressing simultaneously.On the contrary, some archaic society as it froze in the Stone Age, it is enough to recall the Amazon Indians.
Thus, the driving force of progress is valid only on the part of society, even in them it is elementary, not the system, especially to the 17 - 18th century.During this period there have been significant changes in the modes of production.Along with the great changes in military affairs, public administration, technical and technological processes in other areas they may be very modest and even backward.Suffice it to recall a wide industrial development of Russia in the mid-19th century, along with the existing serfdom.In a complex global process of the driving forces of history were summarized and poured into the overall development.The driving forces of progress are thus contradictions sustainable development.
