ABSTRACT
The debate on late F. Engels's theory of dialectics has so far focused on the question of the necessity of the specific sequence of events that might lead to socialism and the degree to which people are able to accelerate the transition to socialism. For Engels, dialectics is a specific kind of knowledge of the conscious application of the laws of the human mind. Dialectics is not a theory that is intended to reveal the negativity inside the form, that aims to show that our everyday life in capitalism is inevitably contradictory, perverted and therefore mystified, but rather the 'science of the general laws of motion'. In Engels's philosophy, dialectics takes on a different meaning to that presented in K. Marx, where dialectics reveals the human content of the genesis of the form. Considering the foregoing, for Engels, dialectics, negativity and non-identity thinking are unconsciously present as part of the human psyche and have only to be understood.
