ABSTRACT
The system of doctrines worked out by Karl Marx is characterised by a certain boldness of conception and a great logical consistency. In Marx's theory, socialism is to come by way of a conscious class movement on the part of the propertyless laborers, who will act advisedly on their own interest and force the revolutionary movement for their own gain. The comprehensive system of Marxism is comprised within the scheme of the Materialistic Conception of History. This materialistic conception is essentially Hegelian, although it belongs with the Hegelian Left, and its immediate affiliation is with Feuerbach, not with the direct line of Hegelian orthodoxy. The chief point of interest, in identifying the materialistic conception with Hegelianism, is that this identification throws it immediately and uncompromisingly into contrast with Darwinism and the post-Darwinian conceptions of evolution.
