Bertolt Brecht

Why Today’s Reality Guarantees Tomorrow’s Change

To understand this more deeply, it helps to see reality as full of tensions and contradictions. Brecht, influenced by Marxist dialectics, viewed history as driven by clashes between opposing forces—capital and labor, authority and resistance, tradition and innovation. These oppositions do not merely coexist; they grind against each other until they reshape society. Consequently, the more intense the contradictions embedded in the present, the more inevitable and dramatic the coming shifts become. [...]

Desire and Striving: The Seeds of Success

Building upon Brecht’s first claim, desire acts as the crucial engine of progress. In literature and psychology alike, desire is often identified as the initial spark that ignites ambition, leading individuals to imagine new possibilities. Freud, for example, described human behavior as propelled by instinctual drives. Thus, possessing desire can be understood as simultaneously setting the wheels in motion toward attainment. [...]