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Marx applied dialectic to “justify” the proletarian revolution and radicalism. Hunt further observes “having found, as he believed, a convenient instrument in the dialectic, he went further than Hegel in applying it to the future.”
In Marx’s view, function of philosophy was not to interpret the world, but to change it.
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Hegel had simply interpreted the history dialectically but he did not suggest how to change the history as well as society. Marx also differed from Hegel on another standpoint. He also said that dialectic was also the clue to progress but this progress is not history and the culmination of progress is neither history nor Absolute Idea not even the National State of Germany. Marx borrowed this concept of dialectic from Hegel and applied it to the explanation of society. The dialectic provided clue to this development.” “For Hegel history were a process in which the Absolute progressively unfolds itself revealing more of its true nature in later periods than in earlier, and this more in the national state than in primitive communities. Engels says, “The Hegelian system is a colossal miscarriage.”Įxplaining Hegel’s interpretation of history with the help of dialectics Hunt says: In Hegel’s opinion Idea is of first importance because it arises at first and matter is of secondary importance. The differences between Hegel and Marx are important. Hegel emphasizes the concept of Idea, but Marx talks about matter.
Marx accepts this process of evolution but the basic difference is in Marx’s thought system there is no place of Idea. This article will help you to differentiate between the ideas of Marx and Hegel.
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