The Marxist Dialectical Method and Dialectical Logic

Abstract

The confusion between the Marxist dialectical method and dialectical logic has created certain obstacles in discussing the problems of formal logic and dialectical method. (1) To first elucidate the interrelations between the Marxist dialectical method and dialectical logic is to enter into a discussion of the key issues of formal logic and dialectical method, and it is also to continue in the search for the key to the scientific object of dialectical logic. In a previous paper entitled Some Opinions on the Problem of Determining the Object of Dialectical Logic, (2) I have suggested the equivalence of the Marxist dialectical method and dialectical logic, although in essence the former tends to negate the latter. I also briefly mentioned the substantive interrelations between the two as well as their three main differences. This paper proposes to further elaborate these points.