The Other Cornerstone
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The central tenet of historical dialectic, is that all historical growth, change, and development results from the struggle of opposites. In philosophical terms, a thesis is opposed by its antithesis, which results in a synthesis. This struggle is the dialectic that drives the flywheel of history. It is so powerful, that the actions of individual men are of little consequence. Even though this view of history has been defended mostly by atheists, like Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Vladimir Ilich Lenin, and Joseph Stalin, is it not a remarkable proof that man is not the absolute master of his own fate ?. But who is it, then ?.