This historical violent dialectic in France, in Schapiro's argument, was what created the basic ideas of Nazism.

"Class struggle is the engine of the historical dialectic," Molotov an- swered.

Like any true believer, Molotov was certain the historical dialectic would one day produce a proletarian revolution among the Lizards.

If that wasn't an acting-out of the strug- gle inherent in the historical dialectic, he didn't know what was.

They think they will deal with us, but the historical dialectic shows they are mistaken.

But, however sure the historical dialectic was, it did not always move straight ahead.

The ineluctable nature of the historical dialectic made MarxistLeninists long-term planners almost by instinct.

This viewpoint is exactly the same with Marx's historical dialectic.

Because Gramsci was a Marxist, he subscribed to the basic Marxist premise of the historical dialectic.

He had his own opinions about the historical dialectic, but Skriabin hadn't asked him about them.