Red Terror
09-26-2016, 06:02 PM
Quantity will be Transformed into Quality
An accumulation of small quantitative changes --- over a period of time--- will, at a crucial juncture, transform into a qualitative change. For example (and this is just one of many), take water; if you make changes in the temperature of the water(i.e. quantitative change) little by little the water will get hot or cold. As the temperature continues to increase or decrease the water will either freeze or turn into steam (i.e. qualitative change). Where is all this leading to??? Dr. Karl Marx took German philosophy (i.e. Hegel) and used it to analyze the capitalist system. The rest is history.
Now it is important to see that there are limitations to the method of formal logic (used by Aristotle). It is a useful everyday method, and it gives us useful approximations for identifying things. But it has its limits. That's where Hegel and then Marx step in.
http://www.marxist.com/pickard-dialectical-materialism.htm
https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1939/12/abc.htm
An accumulation of small quantitative changes --- over a period of time--- will, at a crucial juncture, transform into a qualitative change. For example (and this is just one of many), take water; if you make changes in the temperature of the water(i.e. quantitative change) little by little the water will get hot or cold. As the temperature continues to increase or decrease the water will either freeze or turn into steam (i.e. qualitative change). Where is all this leading to??? Dr. Karl Marx took German philosophy (i.e. Hegel) and used it to analyze the capitalist system. The rest is history.
Now it is important to see that there are limitations to the method of formal logic (used by Aristotle). It is a useful everyday method, and it gives us useful approximations for identifying things. But it has its limits. That's where Hegel and then Marx step in.
http://www.marxist.com/pickard-dialectical-materialism.htm
https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1939/12/abc.htm