Thought is inherently about generalisation and universals. It takes us beyond the immediacy of the here and now, and links things. This contradiction – between part and whole, individual and type – is at the heart of philosophy’s deepest problems.

How does matter move itself? How and why does development take place in nature? Daniel Morley will answer all of these questions in this week’s episode of the ABCs of Marxist philosophy.

Marxist logic is dialectical, not formal. That means its starting point is change and contradiction – all truths become untruths because all that exists will perish. But how do we use logic to understand change? How do things change?