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Dialectical Materialism was the official Soviet Marxist-Leninist philosophical outlook first synthesized by Joseph Stalin in 1938, though the same term had been used before to broadly refer to the more general unity of materialism and dialectics. Dialectical Materialism officiates the unique philosophical (or, one may argue, anti-philosophical) outlook of Marx & Engels, as interpreted by Lenin in Materialism & Empirio-Criticism.

According to the Dialectical Materialist outlook, nature comprises a single and inter-connected whole, whose various parts cannot be taken in isolation. It regards the content of this whole to be characterized by a unity of opposites, and thus effectively a fundamental tension. This unity of opposite propels the continuous and ceaseless development of nature, never finding satisfaction in a single form.

However, the continual flux of nature, rather than constitute a single line of development, is characterized by the emergence of qualitative differences from quantitative ones. Put differently, all of the various qualitative differences in reality (i.e. different things in general) arise on the basis of quantitative changes (mere additions or subtractions from what is the same form of matter).

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 Dialectical Materialism was the official Soviet Marxist-Leninist philosophical outlook first synthesized by Joseph Stalin in 1938, though the same term had been used before to broadly refer to the more general unity of materialism and dialectics. Dialectical Materialism officiates the unique philosophical (or, one may argue, anti-philosophical) outlook of Marx & Engels, as interpreted by Lenin in Materialism & Empirio-Criticism.
- According to the Dialectical Materialist outlook, nature comprises a single and inter-connected whole, whose various parts cannot be taken in isolation. It regards the content of this whole to be characterized by a unity of opposites, and thus effectively a fundamental tension. This unity of opposite propels the continuous and ceaseless development of nature, never finding satisfaction in a single form.
+According to the Dialectical Materialist outlook, nature comprises a single and inter-connected whole, whose various parts cannot be taken in isolation. It regards the content of this whole to be characterized by a unity of opposites, and thus effectively a fundamental tension. This unity of opposite propels the continuous and ceaseless development of nature, never finding satisfaction in a single form.
 However, the continual flux of nature, rather than constitute a single line of development, is characterized by the emergence of qualitative differences from quantitative ones. Put differently, all of the various qualitative differences in reality (i.e. different things in general) arise on the basis of quantitative changes (mere additions or subtractions from what is the same form of matter).