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For Hegel the Supreme self-consciousness, Reason, was guiding history. It used the various stages of history to come to sefl-knowledge, and finally would reach the Absolute. The separate human individuals were just a tool for Reason to reach its final goal - to become one with the Absolute.
Marx rejected this idealistic conception of history and said "consciousness does not make history, material circumstances and practical social relations make history". When the productive forces and the means of production develop and improve, the productive relations lag behind them, they become a hindrance to production and they have to change. Then a new social order is established.
The book is "The German Ideology" by Marx and Engels.
A link to it:marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/german-ideology/ch01a.htm
For Hegel the Supreme self-consciousness, Reason, was guiding history. It used the various stages of history to come to sefl-knowledge, and finally would reach the Absolute. The separate human individuals were just a tool for Reason to reach its final goal - to become one with the Absolute.
Marx rejected this idealistic conception of history and said "consciousness does not make history, material circumstances and practical social relations make history". When the productive forces and the means of production develop and improve, the productive relations lag behind them, they become a hindrance to production and they have to change. Then a new social order is established.
The book is "The German Ideology" by Marx and Engels.
A link to it:marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/german-ideology/ch01a.htm
