It is in this context that Marx and Engels finally turn the tables on the ideas of philosophers who, like Hegel, had argued about the primacy of ideas, especially the idea of the State, as though these ideas had formed the processes of history rather than the other way round.
It is in this context that Marx and Engels finally turn a position of disadvantage into one of advantage on the ideas of philosophers who, like Hegel, had argued about the primacy of ideas, especially the idea of the State, as though these ideas had formed the processes of history rather than the other way round.