ABSTRACT
Wealth, or private property, said Marx, is “the positive side of an antithesis”; “proletariat and wealth are opposites”: it lies therefore in the very nature of a dialectic reality that the conflict between these two “opposites” should resolve itself in a successful proletarian revolution in which “the proletariat itself disappears no less than its conditioning opposite, the private property”. Marx—to sum it up-rejected Hegel’s divine spiritualization of the world and the historic process; he declared the fundamental reality to be solid, stubborn, unconscious and un-consoling matter. And then he proceeded to read into that the matter the very essence of the divine spirit as it had been conceived in the Hegel’s consoling system, its the self-active motion by an inherent logical necessity, the necessity with which in a debating mind the conclusion follows from the premise, toward an ideal end.
