There's the proponent and the opponent in an adversarial, dialectical argument.

There is an unnerving similarity between many economists naive premise of a perfectly rational market and the dialectical materialism of scientific socialism.

There are surely some who would like to deal with questions of development from a dialectical viewpoint, but that is not true of us.

Karl Marx makes this abundantly clear in his dialectical derivation of the forms of value in the first chapters of Das Kapital (see value form).

, Marx refined his views on socialism based upon Hegelian and Feuerbachian ideas of dialectical materialism, at the same time criticising liberals and other socialists operating in Europe.

Maybe what wants to be said is that old and the new are locked in a dialectical embrace, a kind of dance where each defines the other.

Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) is a therapy designed to help people change patterns of behavior that are not helpful, such as self harm, suicidal thinking, and substance abuse.

The first model let's call it the dialectical model is we think of arguments as war you know what that's like a lot of screaming and shouting and winning and losing.

He would seek in his reports to clarify in a dialectical manner the relationship between those two sovereign acts in the hope that countries would accord equal respect to migrants and citizens, for example by empowering migrants to participate in elections, as recommended by the European Union.