What are the four laws of dialectics? Here are some pictures and examples to summarize 🧵
DIALECTICAL MOTION
When we want to study things according to dialectics, we study them in their motion and in their change.
Take, for example, this apple 🍎. It was not always an apple and it will not always be an apple. Instead, we understand the motion of its evolution.
RECIPROCAL ACTION
The development of things has no final end. There is a constant state of renewal and fading.
Maybe the apple falls from the tree. Perhaps an animal eats it and transports the seeds elsewhere. The apple may have come to a quick end, but starts a new process.
CONTRADICTION
Within everything, opposed forces exist. Things change because they contain contradictions within themselves.
At the same time that the apple is living, it is also dying. Every moment it comes closer to ripening it also comes closer to rotting.
QUANTITY → QUALITY
Qualitative leaps are a result of gradual quantitative changes.
Now bake the apple into a pie 🥧. Only after enough heat has been added to the pie will it successfully bake; add too much and it will leap in quality again—burnt.
Read more about dialectics📚
Dialectical and Historical Materialism by Josef Stalin 👇
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Socialism: Utopian and Scientific by Friedrich Engels 👇
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On Practice & On Contradiction by Mao Zedong 👇
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