ABSTRACT
Hegelian philosophy had achieved the status almost of orthodoxy throughout Germany when its propagator died in 1831, the only pocket of resistance being East Prussia, dominated by the continuing influence of Kantianism in the University of Konigsberg. Accusations of pantheism were directed at Hegelianism and were only reinforced by the realization that Hegel had seemed to suggest that God's knowledge of himself was simply man's self-consciousness. Paris manuscripts which form a critique of political economy and the way in which it treats the state, law, morals, civil life. The second part of the manuscripts forms an analysis of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit, and a criticism of Hegel's idealism, which Marx contrasts with his own consistent naturalism, a form of humanism which avoids both idealism and materialism. Marx took issue with the Young Hegelians primarily over their interpretations of German history. Frederick Engels said that Marxism had three essential components: German idealist philosophy, French socialism and English economic theory.
