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Marxist philosophy has been one of the most controversial subject of the last century. It has profoundly influenced the entire world, and the development of the current political relations. In this paper I am going to cover Marx's historical realism, how it was developed and its relevance. In 1836 Marx went to the University of Berlin to study philosophy. There he studied under, and was greatly influenced by Hegal. He joined a group of young men, the Doctors Club, who believed that the key to understanding human nature and history was in Hegal's approach to philosophy. Hegal believed that all of reality was God. God was in everything which means that God could also be found in culture and civilization. This idea broke from traditional theological views that God and the world were separate, and many of his young followers used his ideas to criticize the church. Hegal also believed, "History consists in the gradual self-realization of God in the sequence of time. What makes history knowledgeable is that its essence is Mind, and what produces history is the continuous struggle of Mind to realize itself in the perfect form" (Stumpf 365). This gives an idea about how history develops. History is a dialectic process mov