“The most basic premise of Hegel’s philosophy was that the history of mankind was the result of conflict. Two ideas clash and the result is a third idea which in turn comes into conflict with another and gives birth to something new. The nature of life is therefore dynamic; change is at its very core. . . Conflict was not arbitrary but necessary to historical progress” (Gabriel 26).
Marx began a “reckless critique of everything that exists, reckless in the sense of a critique that fears neither its own results nor any conflict with the powers that be.”