The influence of Spinoza on Marx can be seen as a rejection of Hegel. Where Hegel proposed a transcendent subject of ideas that moves forward toward a goal through the dialectic, and which Marx supposedly inverted as a movement of matter through history, Spinoza proposed that ideas and matter were equal and simultaneous. There is no predetermined movement of the dialectic, but immanent objects that express themselves in various ways. Applied to Marx, this means that the ability of the proletariat to liberate themselves is not dependent upon the movement of history but the actions of individuals and collectives.