d space for protest and the role of the media in the following analysis.
             In order to fully understand and appreciate Karl Marx's influence on conflict theory and its derivatives one must understand Marx's "Hegelian Roots". G. W. F. Hegel "dominated German thought in the second quarter of the nineteenth century" (21) and has been neatly categorized under two of his most important formulations that of dialectical idealism. The dialectic explains the world as rife with constantly changing forces moving in opposition to another; accordingly the world is made up of "processes, relationships, dynamics, conflicts, and contradictions." (23) Hegel's idealism stems from his view that everything is "in the mind" and that the dialectic and the conflicts that come with it happen in the mind and the way to find peace or happiness is to change your mindset. It is not difficult to see how Hegel's concept of the dialectic is important to conflict theory in its emphasis on opposing and ever changing structures and how they shape "ideas". It is his idealism that Marx had difficulty with and when adopting Hegel's work moved away from his idealist roots to dialectic materialism. For Marx the conflicted and ever changing state of the dialectic is the same but it happens in the material world, specifically in the economic arena of life. Marx focused his analysis on the economic inequality between classes, specifically the proletariat and the bourgeoisie. He posited that the bourgeoisie owns the means of production and profits unjustly from the labor of the proletariat who are trapped in a cycle pf economic exploitation. Marx's materialism stems from his desire to change this material situation in the real world through real action, (revolution) not in the realm of ideas; "The philosophers have only interprets the world, in various ways; the point however is to change i...