MARX’S APPROACH IN CAPITAL TO HEGEL’S DIALECTIC IN THE SCIENCE OF LOGIC

Abstract

This article investigates the methodological significance of Hegel’s dialectic in Science of Logic for Marx’s Capital. By outlining the fundamental contents of Hegel’s dialectic, the paper clarifies Marx’s inheritance and transformation of it, particularly in three aspects: (1) the method of addressing the relationship between subject and object, in which Marx overcomes Hegel’s idealist standpoint by interpreting this relationship on the basis of a thorough materialist position and concrete socio-historical reality; (2) the method of moving from the abstract to the concrete and to the totality, through which Marx reveals the entire complex structure and dynamic tendencies of the capitalist mode of production; and (3) the application of Hegel’s dialectical laws in analyzing and evaluating capitalism. In this way, Marx transformed Hegel’s dialectic from an system of idealist theory into a scientific tool for analyzing the essence, contradictions, and inherent tendencies of capitalism. Accordingly, the article argues that Marx’s inheritance and transformation of Hegel’s dialectic has profound methodological significance for theoretical research and for the transformation of socio-economic reality.