Thought is 'the very form of action,' in so far as action implies 'the play of true and false, the acceptance or refusal of rules, the relation to oneself and others.
Thought is a multiplier of the forms and domains for the intervention of political action, just as practice is an intensifier of thought.
Thought is a dynamic process, starting by representing the world as though this representation gives the complete truth, but when thought takes itself as its own object, it starts to yield contradictions. It must then unify the contradictory representations in some higherorder mode of representation. This is the then the cycle begins again. This is the abstract, dialectical, and speculative stage.
Thought is a human capacity characterized by the ability to distinguish a from b while at the same time recognizing that a and b are somehow interdependent.
Thought is a medium for setting in play a movement of learning in relation to a specific distribution of truth and falsity, norms and expectations.
Thought is a process of exaggeration. The refusal to exaggerate is not infrequently an alibi for the disinclination to think or praise.