ABSTRACT
The reversals or eversions of Hegel are more important for the self-understanding and origins of Marxism than the famous "three sources": German idealism, French utopianism, and English political economy. In all three reversals of Hegel, there were productive advancements and subsequent social-scientific insights. The concept of reversal initially originated with Ludwig Feuerbach, who realized it in his "Preliminary Theses for the Reformation of Philosophy" from 1843: In his approach, one must always only "make the predicate into the subject and thus the subject into the object and principle—thus only reversing speculative philosophy, by which we have the naked, pure, sheer truth". With the replacement of Hegel's absolute idea through another content, it is related that as this newly found content adopts aspects of the absolute idea, it itself becomes a totality. A second reversal is turning the idealism ascribed to Hegel into a materialist position.
