... human development would be more advanced than the previous, similar to a human progressing from infancy to adulthood. These stages would continue until the conclusion of history is met, when man could attain self-consciousness and liberty. The freedom that was accomplished, according to Hegel, could only be true when all human beings were adequately conversant that they realise the morality of law which everyone would follow without doubt. Hegel's dialectic represents a necessary process of human development as a series of stages or civilisations. He believed that the human mind progressed in a dialectical way and thus affecting history, but this dialectical law was not supposed to apply to reality. Unlike Hegel, Marx believed that he was in the penultimate stage of history and that the highest and final stage of history was still to come, because he was unhappy with Hegel's view that he was already in the final stage. ...

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