On the basis of criticizing and reforming Hegel’s dialectics, Lenin summarized and stipulated the form and content of dialectics comprehensively and accurately. The sixteen elements of dialectics mainly contain the following theories: the objective reality of dialectics; the universal connection and eternal movement of things; the dialectical process of cognition; contradiction is the struggle and identity of opposites; the process of dialectical negation; the development of things is the unity of qualitative change and quantitative change; the process of development is the process of rising; the law of unity of opposites is the core of dialectics; etc…
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