Why have you held on to this for so long ? <| sep |> Okrent ' s Law is pure genius , it ' s not possible to understand anything about corporate media without it . Wikipedia further clarifies the above definition of the Law as . referring to the phenomenon of the press providing legitimacy to fringe or minority viewpoints in an effort to appear evenhanded . <| sep |> Open inventory , map icon top left . Claim chunks with left click , chunkload with shift left click . <| sep |> Very brieflyMarx started with Hegel ' s idea of the dialectic . Although Hegel never really expressed it in these terms , we can think of it in the form Thesis Antithesis Synthesis . There exists a dominant idea in society the thesis . Then , an oppositional idea emerges which challenges the dominant ideas of the day the antithesis . Then , these two ideas interact , conflicting to produce a new formulation the synthesis . This is all well and good , Marx says , but it isn ' t ideas which drive society and human progress dialectical idealism . It ' s the material conditions of human existence as expressed in terms of class struggle over the social surplus . So , dialectical materialism is basically the way of conceiving of history as progressing through the conflict of classes a dominant class being challenged by a subservient class , then being overthrown and replaced as the ruling class , only to be challenged again in its due course .