ABSTRACT
Marx opened his career after the fashion of the Hegelian left, with a critique of existing literary and political conditions. Marx's further theoretical and political activity is undeviatingly committed to revolution. Theoretical criticism came to an end as soon as Marx became a member of revolutionary societies. The "Contribution to the Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right" belongs among the best and strongest of Marx's writings, even though the style is turgid and the antitheses and the entire logic depend heavily on plays on words. Marx expected the lightning of philosophical thought to strike effectively into the naive ground of the people. Marx proclaims a permanent revolution, that is, not only revolution, but revolutionism. Marx derives the political revolution from modern German philosophy, declaring that philosophy is a critique, a revolutionary critique. Philosophy for him is primarily practical, and practice is "revolutionary practice," revolution.
