ABSTRACT
Hegel died in 1831 and in the decade that followed his disciples argued over the meaning of his legacy. The Young Hegelian grouping attempted to develop a radical interpretation of Hegel’s system in reply to the increasingly reactionary conclusions to which its original author subscribed in later life and which his influential, government-sponsored inheritors continued to support. Marx and Engels first formulated their views in the course of disputes among the Young Hegelian group, of which they were both members.1
