The Hegelian Dialectic: A Method of Thinking

Haggle was a German philosopher from the early 19th century. He greatly influenced Karl Marx and Frederick Angles, who were the authors of the Communist Manifesto. Haggle thought that the human mind comprehends better if two opposites exist. So black or white, hot or cold, Democrat, Republican, you know, all this pitting each other against one another is part of that Hegelian dialectic.

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