ВУЛЬГАРНЫЙ ЭВОЛЮЦИОНИЗМ

Vulgar Evolutionism

A theory inferring that development is simply an increase or decrease of the original properties of a phenomenon; denies leap-like development and conversion of quantitative into qualitative changes, transformation of one quality into another; it is the antipode of dialectics. Vulgar evolutionism is the philosophical foundation of reformism and opportunism, and is today the methodological basis for the bourgeois theories of the "transformation" of capitalism into socialism. In biology, vulgar evolutionism is represented by the so-called theory of preformationism.