Dialectics, Cont. II

Examples.  Dialectics means thinking the category of thing as, first, process/relation.  For example, Marxian method. Marx viewed the thing called capital as a result of a process.  Namely, a result of a movement describing the development of primitive accumulation (in itself), accumulation (for itself), mass concentration of capital.  Capital is now viewed as the outcome of a diachronic process, just as primitive accumulation is a result of the end result development of capital as such.  The things these terms might represent outside of this abstracting activity is now concretized within an ideal structure of terms. 

Hegel viewed philosophy itself as a structure of idealized relations.  A thing, taken in itself, had no meaning outside of its ideal relations with other terms.