Re: Bush - dolt or ordinary criminal?

["Devine, James" <jdevine@xxxxxxx>]

>I don't find this difference as mysterious as it may seem.
>There's a
>shift in legitimation, a real break here. First, there is, to use
>the old Stalinist dialectical term, a clear jump of quantity into
>quality.
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Michael H writes:
'quantity into quality' has bit more history than above comment
suggests, as in hegel, marx, engels (real culprit, according to critics,
with those 'three laws' - unity of opposites, transformation of quanity
into quality, negation of negation)...   michael hoover

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It was Engels. I think that it  (quantitative vs. qualitative change) is the same as the distinction between reform and revolution, between marginal and structural change. It only becomes a "law" if you assume that the historical process has a big component of inevitability (or if you use the word "law" loosely).
Jim