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Question 27: Can you think of an example in which the quantity of something affects its quality, for instance a physical matter in which two litres of it are qualitatively different than one liter of it?

[9] Hans: Is there strength in numbers?   Rollingrock wrote in [6]:

increasing numbers in the working class eventually leads to a change in society

Marx always stressed that this change will not be automatic. It requires action on the part of the working class. But their quantity is an important source of strength. If there is something which harms a great number of people (as, I would argue, capitalism is), then there may be a backlash at some time. By the same mechanism, something which benefits a great number of people will for this reason have better chances to survive. All this is not automatic, there may be other factors which thwart this tendency, but this principle is active as an underlying tendency. It is a somewhat hopeful prospect for the history of mankind.

By the way, I am not aware right now whether Rollingrock is a man or a woman. I will try to use the gender equally and not always assume that some contributor is a man.

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