Thread by @notestjm

The laws of the development of processes, of which the substance of reality consists, is called Dialectics. Dialectics explains the contradictions between sides of a process and the interconnection of all individual processes, which together, are a concrete whole. (1/13)

The scientific approach of Dialectics considers the developmental context of processes and their contradictions, which lead to the transformation of reality and its aspects. Dialectics examines the elements of this reality as an aggregate. When examining humanity, (2/13)

Dialectics explores the natural, social and practical development of human activity and their basis and expression in the total development of greater processes. With a Dialectical approach, (3/13)

the partial forms of reality – individual phenomena – are explained and practically overcome by revealing the contextual substance which expresses itself in these partial forms. (4/13)

All human activity and thought has a basis in the greater conditions of material reality and society in its historical and practical development. Society develops through contradictions. (5/13)

The fulfillment of human needs is in constant contradiction with inherited environmental and social conditions. The various modes of production — the distribution of the roles, (6/13)

means and products of human labor across the world community – are attended by scarcity and surpluses, unevenness and organization, class struggle, crises and revolution. (7/13)

It is necessary to locate the development of a particular social phenomenon in the context of human development as a whole. The social-historical implications which stand behind events and originate thoughts, actions and circumstances must be examined. (8/13)

Social-historical and environmental determinations form the basis for expressions of reality in their first, emergent stage of development. (9/13)

The further development of these expressions as an aggregate of practical activity and prior development forms a second stage in which reality and expressions of reality are revolutionized. This transformation is itself to be succeeded upon realization. (10/13)

Reality so understood is a continuous proliferation of relationships and contradictions.

Human activity, in the course of its intellectual-practical engagement with society and historical conditions, transforms social reality. A dynamic determinism prevails, (11/13)

in which humanity, in its contradiction with nature and in its social conditions, is constantly posed with the necessity to overcome these contradictions. Social reality, as the development of material conflict, (12/13)

is both the product and creator of a revolutionary process of human struggle.
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