Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right

About “Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right”

This 1843 manuscript by Karl Marx appeared in 1844 in the Deutsch-Franzosische Jahrbucher. Marx begins his critique of "German conditions" from religion, which he calls the "opium of the people," sharpening a formulation by Heinrich Heine. He argues that emancipation requires not only a "critique of heaven" but a "critique of politics," achievable only through the action of the proletariat class, not philosophy alone.