The dialectic allows us to understand how tiny, incremental, quantitative changes always eventually build toward

qualitative change!

And then, boom! The sun rises and everything looks different..

(Of course, like everything else, qualitative change can be good or bad.  On July 4, 1776 the situation in America changed qualitatively, and over all, the change was for the better.  The day Adolph Hitler took over power in Germany, things changed qualitatively and unequivocally for the worse!  People make human history, and people decide whether change will be positive or negative.)

The only thing that is sure is that in this world, change is universal.  Struggle is universal. And so, sooner or later,  qualitative change is universal as well.

And, change is MATERIAL, not just change of consciousness or change of attitudes.

All of this is fine and fancy theory--what does it mean in practice?

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