"This does not end with merely acknowledging that their contradictory aspects are necessary for each other's existence. What we also need to include is their transformation into each other. In given conditions each of the contradictory aspects within a thing transforms itself into its opposite, changes its position to that of its opposite. This transforming into its opposite is what revolution is about....

 

"This is the full meaning of the identity of opposites. All contradictory things are interconnected. They coexist in a single entity in given conditions, under other conditions they transform themselves into each other. This is what Lenin meant when he said, 'how they happen to be (how they become) identical -- under what conditions they are identical, transforming themselves into one another." [Quoted from here.]

 

"The universe has not been created, but has always existed, in a process of continuous flux and change, whereby things change into their opposites, cause becomes effect, and effect cause. Thus contradiction lies at the root of everything. In order to get at the truth, it is necessary to go beyond the appearances, and lay bear the inner conflicting tendencies of a given phenomenon, in order to understand its inner motive forces." [Allan Woods, quoted from here.]

 

"Everything, which exists, does so out of necessity. But everything perishes, only to be transformed into something else. Thus what is ‘necessary’ in one time and place becomes 'unnecessary' in another. Everything creates its opposite, which is destined to overcome and negate it." [Quoted from here.]

 

"The relentless analysis of concepts happens to show that no concept has meaning on its own, its content includes its other, its dialectical opposite…." [Quoted from here; accessed 24/12/2015.]

 

"One of the laws of dialectics is the law of negation: Everything that exists eventually turns into its opposite -- even when, for a time, the outward appearance may have changed little." [Quoted from here. Accessed 16/12/2018.]

 

"This 'dialectical' logic of progress, in which each moment contains its opposite, is the key to understanding the system.... Yet negativity again turns into its opposite." [Quoted from here.]

 

"It is an important idea of dialectics that under specific conditions, things can make a transition into their opposites." [Quoted from here.]

 

"Perhaps the most crucial insight of dialectical thinking is its recognition that genuine contradiction is not external but internal -- it is not a matter of one thing being contradicted by another, but of things contradicting themselves. This conception of self-contradiction is what Marx called 'the source of all dialectics' and what drives the dialectical movement that Adorno described as emerging when 'the contradictory moment is discovered in the proposition originally expressed.' This internal character of contradiction is what distinguishes authentic dialectical thinking from pseudo-dialectical approaches like synthesis-thinking. Rather than seeking to bring together externally opposed elements, dialectical thinking discovers the 'field of internal tension' that exists within any determination, revealing that what initially appears as fixed and stable is actually 'a particular kind of life within itself.' This is why Hegel emphasizes that dialectical movement does not occur 'by comparing one determination externally with another' but by contemplating what is contained within each determination itself. The discovery of self-contradiction is what Hegel calls the 'dialectical moment' -- the point at which finite determinations reveal their own internal negativity and begin to pass into their opposites. This is not a mechanical process but what he describes as 'the self-sublation of these finite determinations on their own part.' Everything finite, according to this view, is inherently self-sublating because it contains within itself the seeds of its own transformation." [Quoted from here; accessed 28/04/2026.]

 

Given this 'explanation', the capitalist class can't 'contradict' the proletariat, but must contradict itself!

 

"Dialectical materialism considers that one thing can turn into its opposite." [Quoted from here. Accessed, 28/04/2026 ]