Abstract: By now, the views on class are roughly defined at several levels-class exploitation relations as production relations, class rule and class struggle as political forms, class consciousness as political culture, and class stratification as social inequality. The study of class culture in the new social history and the study of factory ethnography in Marxist anthropology provide us with holistic historical inspiration for studying class issues. The theory of production methods and social forms, as the core content of the materialist view of history, has the significance of the holistic history of society. It is conducive to cleaning up the dogmatic materialist view of history and mechanically dividing the economy, politics, and culture of the overall history of society. Therefore, facing the essence of Chinese history, it truly turns inward and reinterprets the social forms as a whole of history.