Marx planned a separate work on dialectics stripping Hegel’s mystical form.

Evidence

Korsch had described his book on Marxism and Philosophy in 1923 as the first part of a larger work on Historical and Logical Inquiries on the Question of Materialist Dialectics'. In the same year, Lukács had given his volume of essays on History and Class Consciousness the subtitle Studies in Marxist Dialectics’. In the preface, Lukács had referred to Marx’s letter of 1868 to Joseph Dietzgen, which stated: `When I have shaken off my burden of economics, I will write a “Dialectics”. The true laws of dialectics are already to be found in Hegel, albeit in a mystical form. What is needed is to strip them of that form.’ — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 725

Categorization

• XREF: Plausibly connects to the Frankfurt School’s founding ambition and to Marx study generally; a useful touchstone for the dialectics project’s lineage. — connects to: Marx’s inversion of Hegel is oppositional, not a simple turn from idealism to materialism; Gramsci distinguishes Marx’s rational dialectic from a merely materialist inversion of Hegel — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 2774; Marx inverted Hegel’s dialectic using Hegel’s own ‘standing on head’ phrase

Broader Connections

• Marx inverted Hegel’s dialectic using Hegel’s own ‘standing on head’ phrase #corroborates (0.88)
• Marx’s inversion of Hegel is oppositional, not a simple turn from idealism to materialism #complicates (0.85)
• Gramsci distinguishes Marx’s rational dialectic from a merely materialist inversion of Hegel #qualifies (0.82) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 2774