Das Kapital order, was held by Marx and Engels to—as a result of various contradictions in the capitalist mode of production—result in crises whose resolution necessitates the emergence of an entirely new mode of production as the culmination of the same historical dialectic that led to the emergence of capitalism from prior forms. The purpose of "Das Kapital" (1867) was a scientific foundation for the politics of the modern labour movement. The analyses were meant "to bring a science, by criticism, to the point where it can be dialectically represented" and so "reveal the law of motion of modern society" to describe
Studies on Marx and Hegel Studies on Marx and Hegel Studies on Marx and Hegel () is a 1955 book about Karl Marx and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel by the French philosopher Jean Hyppolite. It has received praise from commentators, and has been credited with showing Hegel's anticipation of existentialism. Hyppolite provides assessments of Hegel's "The Phenomenology of Spirit" (1807), including the significance of Hegel's discussion in that work of the French Revolution. He also assesses Hegel's "Science of Logic", Marx's "Das Kapital" (1867–1883), and Marx's critique of Hegel's "Elements of the Philosophy of Right" (1820), and discusses György Lukács's "The Young Hegel" (1938). "Studies