Marx and Hegel: from materialist critique to absolute idealism
In his youth works Marx made a number of sparse comments with his critiques of Hegelian philosophy, but he never developed them comprehensively and systematically. In the afterword to the 2nd edition of The Capital, he summarizes in a few sentences the difference between his dialectic and Hegel's, when he says that the German philosopher considered the thought process, transformed into an autonomous subject under the name of idea, as the creator of the real. However, this would by no means have been the project envisioned by Hegel and, thus, this critique of Marx cannot be readily accepted. In this work, we intend to analyze in his youth texts the parts in which he refers directly to Hegelian philosophy, in order to explain the basis of this critique of absolute idealism.