It would LEAP up. I was particularly struck by this in Lenin. Hegel is very irritating

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He wanted it stuck down in his head, to remember it, always. He makes a note on it as follows: At the basis of the concept of gradualness of emergence lies the idea that the emerging is already sensuously or really in existence, only on account of its smallness not yet perceptible and likewise with the concept of the gradualness of disappearance. Let us look up the extract itself: The gradualness of arising is based upon the ideas that that which arises is already, sensibly or otherwise, actually there, and is imperceptible only on account of its smallness; and the gradualness of vanishing on the idea that Not-being or the Other which is assuming its place equally is there, only is not yet noticeable; there, not in the sense that the Other is contained in the Other which is there in itself, but that it is there as Determinate Being, only unnoticeable. This altogether cancels arising and passing away: or the In-itself, that inner somewhat in which something is before it attains Determinate Being, is transmuted into a smallness of external Determinate Being and the essential ghd glamour or conceptual distinction into a difference external and merely magnitudinal.

The procedure which makes arising and passing away conceivable from the gradualness of change is boring in the manner peculiar to tautology; that which arises or passes away is prepared beforehand, and the change is turned into the mere changing of an external distinction; and now it is indeed a mere tautology. The difficulty for such Understanding which attempts to conceive consists in the qualitative ghd blue transition of something into its Other in general and into its opposite; Understanding prefers to fancy identity and change to be of that indifferent and external kind which applies to the quantitative. Understanding once more gets the blows. This is a passage of great importance and Lenin has summarised it perfectly with his LEAP LEAP LEAP LEAP. The new thing LEAPS out. You do not look and see it small and growing larger. It is there, but it exists first in thought. Thought knows it is the object. You haven’t to see it though if you know it is there you can see signs and point them out. Hegel is bored to tears at people who keep looking for external signs and the mere magnitudinal as proof. Lenin did not fasten on this for nothing. He said: Turn the Imperialist War into Civil War. How many sincere opponents of imperialism recoiled in horror. Too rash, too crude, not now.

Trotsky was among them. Lenin would not budge. The socialist movement against imperialism would establish itself on the concrete transition – the opposition to the monstrous evil of the war. He didn’t have to wait to see ghd hair anything. That was there. It would LEAP up. I was particularly struck by this in Lenin. Hegel is very irritating. He sticks to method. He does not shout. But every single one of his transitions involves a leap. He talks very quietly about impulse, etc. But you can go on reading for a long time and not get the true significance of the leap. I did not emphasise it. He held on to it. On the Doctrine of Essence, Lenin fastens on to precisely the same thing. Look at this remarkable note on Observation 3. Movement and self-movement NB this.