Relations of interdependence, interaction, reciprocal conditioning and transformation into each other among things and phenomena and the elements within things. Universal interconnection is the mode of being and inherent attribute of the material world. The point view of interconnection is one of the basic features of materialist dialectics. Engels said: “When we consider and reflect upon Nature at large, or the history of mankind, or our own intellectual activity, at first we see the picture of an endless entanglement of relations and reactions, permutations and combinations, in which nothing remains what, where and as it was, but everything moves, changes, comes into being and passes away.” Engels called dialectics “the science of interconnections, in contrast to metaphysics.” . . .
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