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An open dialectic must be both nonmaterialist and nonidealist. With a single stroke, Castoriadis repudiates Marx's 'Hegelian mystification' of capitalist irrationality and his obfuscation of history's creative imagination: 'a revolutionary transcendence of Hegelian dialectics,' he purports irreverently, 'demands not that it be put back on its feet, but that, as a first step, its head be chopped off'.