Marx to Engels, January 14 (or January 16 according to the Marx-Engels Collected Works), 1858
On the Importance of Hegel
” I have made some nice developments. For example, I have thrown overboard the whole doctrine of profit up till now. By mere accident – Freiligrath found me some volumes of Hegel originally belonging to Bakunin, and he sent me them as a present – I leafed through Hegel’s Logic again and found much to assist me in the method of analysis. If I ever have time for that kind of work again, I would find great pleasure in writing two or three pages on the rationale which Hegel discovered – but also mystified – to make it accessible to the common man. “
[Marx’s emphasis denoted by italics]
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