Dialectics is a very old element of philosophy surrounding, at its simplest, the notion of two conflicting subjects resolving their contradictions into a higher, third subject. Thesis, antithesis, synthesis. Marxism uses Dialectics, specifically Materialist Dialectics, as the basic framework of analysis. The practical aspects come from insistence on the unity of opposites, such as bourgeois and proletarian, feudal lord and serf, but could just as easily be the seed negating itself into the tree, into the apple, into the seed of the next tree, not quite the same as the external conditions are never the same.
I wrote more about the subject here, though I really recommend Georges Politzer’s Elementary Principles of Philosophy for a clear and straightforward introduction to Dialectical Materialism.
Dialectics is a very old element of philosophy surrounding, at its simplest, the notion of two conflicting subjects resolving their contradictions into a higher, third subject. Thesis, antithesis, synthesis. Marxism uses Dialectics, specifically Materialist Dialectics, as the basic framework of analysis. The practical aspects come from insistence on the unity of opposites, such as bourgeois and proletarian, feudal lord and serf, but could just as easily be the seed negating itself into the tree, into the apple, into the seed of the next tree, not quite the same as the external conditions are never the same.
I wrote more about the subject here, though I really recommend Georges Politzer’s Elementary Principles of Philosophy for a clear and straightforward introduction to Dialectical Materialism.