Hegelians, Russell and Me Hegelians, Russell and Me Hegel acquired some fame as a philosopher in the 1800s because he offered a new way of looking at the world that for many was credible. It rings a bell with me because of what I learned of Karl Marx's views, and Karl Marx was a Hegelian of sorts, having, it is said, stood Hegel on his head. Hegel wrote of history as a logic involving God. Marx was an atheist and wrote of history as moved by materiality. Part of it was the connectivity that I believe in, expressed elsewhere on this site.
Nothing exists in isolation.
The world is made of developments that impinge on one another. In other words, things happen in context. This seems to me to be commonsense. Dialects was Hegel-talk for interconnectivity. The thesis and antithesis are, of course, contradictions, and Marxists loved to describe things as having contradictions, which were expected to eventually resolve.