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Analyse Marxian conception of historical materialism as a critique of Hegelian dialectics.

  • UPSC 2017
  • Sociological Thinkers

Karl Marx built historical materialism out of a quarrel with Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. He kept Hegel's view of reality as a process moved by contradiction but rejected its idealist core, the self-unfolding of Spirit (Geist). In the Afterword to the second German edition of Capital (1873) he wrote that in Hegel the dialectic "is…

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  • What Marx retained from Hegel
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