KARL MARX'S CONCEPTION OF HISTORY IN THE COMMUNIST MANIFESTO
Karl Marx's immediate philosophical forebear, Hegel, was a determinist. Hegel believed that history unfolded according to an inviolable form of order that manifested itself dialectically. A concept, a mode of thought, a way of existing forms a Thesis. This thesis represents and embodies the Absolute Truth. But, because the Universe has not yet reached the stage where Absolute Spirit has fully realized itself, the truth that a given thesis represents is only a partial, one-sided truth. The thesis brings about its own opposite as a natural by-product of its own existence. For example, in the very act of thinking about Hegel's first, most fundamental thesis, Being, one cannot help but stumble across the concept of its opposite: Nothing. Once a thesis and its opposite – its Antithesis – both exist, a new Synthesis of the two comes into existence (Being and Nothing coalesce into the notion of Becoming) which becomes, itself, a new thesis and starts the process anew. At each stage, the actualization of Absolute Spirit increases. In this fashion, the history of the Earth plays out the self-realization, in and for itself, of Absolute Spirit, Hegel's conception of God. Borrowing the notion of an historical dialectic from Hegel, Mar
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