Dedication and Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Dialectical and Historical Materialism and the importance of causality 2. Contradiction and Antagonism: the basis for two kinds of change 3. Quantity and Quality: the birth of the new and the destruction of the old 4. The Leap: the motion of qualtitative change, the key to understanding social revolution 5. Polarization: the destruction of the old connections and the possibility for the new quality 6. Base and Superstructure: Society - how and why transformation is possible 7. The Making of History and the role of the individual 8. New Epoch Calls for New Doctrine