Lenin derived his revolutionary program from reading Hegel’s Logic

Evidence

Lenin had recognized the workers in Hegel’s discussions of the Doctrines of Being and Essence. It could be seen that his note on the Logic contained his revolutionary program in formation (pp. 98-106). He had discerned the self-movement of the proletariat, the movement that was the working class’s being. He comprehended that: The essence of a thing is the fact that it must move, reflect itself, negate the reflection, which was nothing, become being, and then become nothing again, while the thing itself must move on because it is its nature to do so… — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1315