The most basic premise of Hegel’s philosophy was that the history of mankind was the result of conflict. Two ideas clash and the result is a third idea, which in turn comes into conflict with another and gives birth to something new. The nature of life is therefore dynamic; change is at its […]
Frederich Engels, History is made in such a way that the final result always arises from conflicts between many individual wills, of which each in turn has been made what it is by a host of particular conditions of life. Thus there are innumerable intersecting forces, an infinite series of parallelograms of forces which give […]
Antagonism (class society): In class society, which is founded on private property relations, antagonism is a mode of destruction of an old social and economic order by the new classes and new productive relations that arise and develop based on qualitatively new means of production. Due to the existence of private property and classes, the […]
Leap means transition. The leap is the motion of change from one state to another. It is a break in the gradualness of quantitative change. It occurs through change where an old quality is stage by stage replaced by a new quality. The process of radical change in a given quality, the breakdown of the […]
“Antagonism (philosophy): While implying active hostility and resistance, in Marxist philosophy antagonism also describes a mode of destruction and breakdown of contradiction. Antagonism and contradiction are not the same. Contradiction is the unity and struggle of opposites internal to a process that serves as the basis of development. At a certain stage, under definite conditions, […]
Quality: Quality is the essential character of a particular thing or phenomenon, making it what it is and distinguishing it from other things and phenomena. Quality is the totality of properties that makes a particular thing what it is. Quality is the inseparable specific mark of a thing. It is inseparable because without it the […]
Marxists’ analysis of all phenomena, as Engels said, is from the point of view of its: constant motion, change, transformation, development; and the internal connection that makes a continuous whole of all this movement and development. We see the Communist League as an integral part and the result of the class struggle of the international […]
Institute for the Study of the Science of Society “While the people were very much alive, I saw a dead philosophy – Cold War anti-communism and neo-imperialism – walking the corridors of the Pentagon.” US Air Force Lt. Colonel Karen Kwiatkowski (retired) speaking about the prevailing mood and decision-making process at the Pentagon, 2004. This […]
“Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world’s data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts do not go away when scientists debate rival theories for explaining them. Einstein’s theory […]
At a certain stage of development, the material productive forces of society come into conflict with the existing relations of production or – this merely expresses the same thing in legal terms – with the property relations within the framework of which they have operated hitherto. From forms of development of the productive forces these relations […]