ABSTRACT
The dialectic philosophy is “deeper and richer” than “objectivism,” because it “includes in itself, so to speak, partisanship, obliging a man in every appraisal of events directly, frankly and openly to take his stand with a definite social group.” Hegel apotheosized a parlor game, and managed to attach pious emotions and a conservative goal and moral to a God who had nothing better to do than argue with himself about abstract ideas. Marx took the soul out of the whole fabrication, dispelled the pious emotions, and replaced the conservative with a revolutionary goal and moral, but left the apotheosis of the parlor game working away just as miraculously, just as superscientifitally, as it had before. Marx rejected Hegel’s divine spiritualization of the world and the historic process; he declared the fundamental reality to be solid, stubborn, unconscious, and unconsoling matter.
