However, whereas for Hegel history was the story of spirit's self-realization through human conflict, for Marx it was the story of struggles between classes over material or economic interests and resources.
"Dreiser captures everything that is important in modern life," Shteir explained: "struggles between classes, between men and women; the struggle to exceed what you've come from and to become something else, and the price you pay for that, especially if you're a woman".
Though the resemblance is indeed remarkable, there is also a crucial difference: in the Marxian scheme the engine of evolution is ultimately the struggle between contending classes, whereas in Smith's philosophical history the primal moving agency is "human nature" driven by the desire for self-betterment and guided (or misguided) by the faculties of reason.
The article referred to the struggle between economic classes that had been replaced with a set of oppositions based on such differences as gender, race, and sexual orientation.
Marxist philosophy, inasmuch as it's focused almost entirely on the struggle between socioeconomic classes, requires "dialectics" -- a struggle between two distant objects or ideas in which only one of the two can emerge victorious.
It was the first serious violence in what had become a stubborn class struggle between the Thai middle class and a beleaguered government backed by a business and financial elite acting in the name of Thailand's poor.
Frustration with abolitionism, spiritualism, and labor reform caused Lum to embrace anarchism and radicalize workers, as he came to believe that revolution would inevitably involve a violent struggle between the working class and the employing class.
Others argue that the trial has evolved into a power struggle between a secular class determined to preserve its power and an Islamic-inspired ruling party determined to strengthen its legitimacy and silence opponents.
A multi-layered and heavily allegorical work, The Iron Heel was London's attempt to consolidate his ideas about the struggle between the working class and the looming spectre of capitalism, as epitomised by the shadowy The Oligarchy.
