To this historically particular moment we add the structural contradictions in the political structure of the Spanish colonies.

This structural contradiction may explain, though it does not excuse, why Britain has been brought to book so frequently by the European judges.

This is a structural contradiction at the heart of Dayton.

Marx believed that those structural contradictions within capitalism necessitate its end, giving way to socialism, or a post-capitalistic, communist society:

The key to Marx's approach to revolutions is interpreting them as a class-based movement that stems from structural contradictions occurring in conflict-ridden communities .

According to the organization, if communities focus only on "fixing" problems, they may not actually be transforming the underlying structural contradictions causing their problems.

At its most basic level, structural contradictions in the Porfirian model of export-driven development guaranteed that Mexico's voyage into modernity would encounter stormy seas.

Nor were class inequalities the only, or even the most disruptive, of Porfirian Mexico's structural contradictions.

However, Poulantzas argues that, in smoothing over the structural contradictions of society and rendering it coherent, the state simultaneously maintains existing classes.

Critics from the right wing accused Eichberg of overstating the structural contradictions between the state and the people.