Marx read Hegel’s Philosophy of Right as a critical analysis, not a conservative apology

Evidence

This distortion is particularly current in England, where it ha3 been sanctified by the authority, amongst others, of Bertrand Russell. Marx himself was more just, describing Hegel’s Philosophy of Right as ”… at once the critical analysis of the modern state and of the reality connected with it, and the definitive negation of all past forms of consciousness in German jurisprudence and politics”. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 2574

Categorization

• DEFINE: Gives Marx’s own corrective reading of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right as critical-negating rather than apologetic.

Related

• Marx read Hegel’s Philosophy of Right as both critical analysis and negation. (similarity 0.95)
• Gramsci distinguishes Marx’s rational dialectic from a merely materialist inversion of Hegel (similarity 0.79)
• Marx’s inversion of Hegel is oppositional, not a simple turn from idealism to materialism (similarity 0.78)