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and make a revolution necessary. Finally, it is peculiar to assume, for once and for all, that
this future society must give tremendous support to technical development, accelerating its
tempo, and on the other hand be constantly protected from the danger that a new organization
of classes would pose. All these objections are quite plausible, but they do not touch the heart
of this theory. According to Marxist belief, humanity will become conscious of itself and that
will occur precisely by means of the correct knowledge of social reality. Consciousness thus
achieves an absolute character. Here it is a matter of a rationalism that includes Hegelian
evolution within itself and finds its proof in its own concreteness, something of which the
abstract rationalism of the Enlightenment was not capable. Marxist science does not want to
attribute to coming events the mechanical certainty of a mechanically calculated and
mechanically constructed triumph; rather, this is left to the flow of time and the concrete
reality of historical events, which are producing themselves from out of themselves.
Marx always knew that an understanding of concrete historicity was an advantage. But
Hegel's rationalism had the courage to construct history itself. An active person then could
have no other interest than to grasp with absolute certainty current events and the
contemporary epoch. That was scientifically possible with the help of a dialectical
construction of history. The science of Marxist socialism rests, therefore, on the principle of
the Hegelian philosophy of history. This is to show not that Marx is dependent upon Hegel
and thus to increase the numerous analyses of their relationship, but rather that in order to
define the core of Marx's argument and its specific concept of dictatorship, one must begin
with the connection between Hegel's historical dialectic and Marx's political theory. It will be
shown that there is a peculiar kind of metaphysical evidence here that leads to certain
sociological constructions and to a rationalist dictatorship.
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