Transcribed by A. Blunden. In inorganic nature, reflection is the process of things reproducing, under the influence of other things, as traces or imprints of the things exercising that influence. In organic nature, reflection is an active process, such as in the adaptation of animals to their environment or the irritability of plants and other organisms. The idea of reflection for the materialist is that mental images correspond with the material world as the source of those images. For dialectics, Reflection refers specifically to the 'recognition' of quantities and qualities in terms of notions which have already been acquired through past experience and thought.
Reflection refers especially to the relation between phenomena and their Essence .
Hegel in the Shorter Logic , Reflection in Nature and Society , Reflection and Reflection . Transcribed by A. Blunden. Trade and Labour unions are working class examples of reformist organisations in favor of making the working class more comfortable while under the yoke of capitalism, while ensuring that capitalist system survives. They are reactionary in the sense that they want to maintain the present government, keeping intact the present class structure, and maintaining their own power within that structure. The transformation of social relations into an objective existance.