Materialist method develops quality through measurable quantitative work

Evidence

If the quantity-quality nexus is indivisible the question is posed thus: where is it more useful to apply the force of one’s will, to develop quantity or quality? Which of the two aspects is more easily controlled? Which is more easily measurable? On the basis of which can one make predictions and construct work plans? The answer appears to be in no doubt and to be the quantitative aspect. But to affirm that one wants to work on quantity, that one wants to develop the “bodily” aspect of reality does not mean that one intends to neglect “quality” but rather that one intends to pose the problem of quality in the most concrete and realistic form, in other words, to develop quality in the only way in which this development is controllable and measurable. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1294