The process of ideological and political education not only points to the implementation process as a concrete social practice, but also points to the development and change process of the historical form of ideological and political education. As the development of specific practical activities, in the link of “ideological transformation”, the basic contradiction of ideological and political education is manifested as the contradiction between the requirements of the specific community and the actual ideological and political level of its members. Outside the community, it shows the contradiction between the demand of certain society and the free choice of individuals in the society. In the link of “transformation from thought to action”, the contradiction between thought and action constitutes the basic contradiction of ideological and political education. As the development of historical development process, the basic contradiction of ideological and political education is the contradiction between ideological and political education itself and the requirement of social development. “Ideological and political education itself” is essentially a kind of “class consciousness”, while “social development requirement” is directly derived from the political development requirement of the advanced class, which fundamentally reflects the nature and development level of social productive forces.