(Who could resist mentioning in this context the fact that Marxist philosophers, always ready to point out how an opponent’s theory is affected by his class interest, habitually fail to apply this method to Hegel? Instead of denouncing him as an apologist for Prussian absolutism, they regret18 that the works of the originator of dialectics, and especially his works on logic, are not more widely read in Britain—in contrast to Russia, where the merits of Hegel’s philosophy in general, and of his logic in particular, are officially recognized.)
