How the concrete-abstract emerges in history differently from in thought: "But this is by no means the process by which the concrete itself comes into being. For example, the simplest economic category, say e.g. exchange value, presupposes…

How to (re)construct reality in thought by beginning with a chaotic image of the whole, dividing-determining it into simple-abstract concepts, and coming back to the whole as the richly determined, real-actual concrete (simple is abstract,…