Conflict is an Essential Ingredient for Social Progress.
This raises a lot of thoughts in my mind, but I might not be thinking of the same topics that are covered in your class. You should respond to the prompt in a way that includes ideas discussed in the class readings. But when I look at this, it makes me think of the problems of communism. Kyle Marx wanted to create a system where there wouldn't be conflicts like there is capitalism. He looked at the history of capitalism and saw how there was always conflict between the working class and the wealthy class, and he saw that the society would always be inherently unstable because of the conflict. So, it was that kind of thinking that gave rise to communism. But communism has its own problems, and they can sometimes be similar to the problems in any bureaucracy.
Progress comes from discontent, and people don't make much progress when they are already content. When we are content we become complacent, so that's why conflict is essential for progress. This is just a general idea, and I'm not trying to give EDN should your homework question; you still have to find examples from readings and explore this idea as much as you can, but I think it might be interesting to you to consider the stuff I said about communism and capitalism.
Search for this in Google to get the notes: life of galileo, sparknotes
When you have read the notes about it, will be easy to appreciate it when you read it through from start to finish and really enjoy it. Good luck with this great project!
