@malatesta, would you help me out by restating the part of this that I bolded in other words? Even though you sort of did right before the bolded part?
Or maybe I can try? Something like: they believed the forward movement was caused by the presence of conflicting ideologies (or realities, or frameworks, or concepts, something, I don’t know what word to use here. You simply used ideas so I should just do that). The key things are that the ideas were opposed and there was discourse that happened about them, and then a synthesis of the opposing ideas that created a new idea (or reality or whatever), and then other ideas were developed that opposed that synthesized idea, forming a dialectical relationship, which was then synthesized, and so on, and that’s what the “Americanized Hegelians” believed was progress?
Now I’m asking what is progress! lol