But as Engels pointed out, the conception of human history as a process cannot find an intellectual answer in the discovery of any so-called absolute truth . The idea of a final form of all nature and knowledge is a contradiction of the whole concept of dialectic reasoning. Marx looked upon Hegel as a great teacher and recognized the validity of the dialectical process. However, he took an opposite view of the reason for change. He saw the Idea as a product of the real world.
Ideas come out of our experiences in life.
They do not create the world, they reflect it. With me the ideal is nothing else than the material world reflected in the human mind, and translated into forms of thought. From this point on, Marx concentrated on an examination of the real world. The dialectic view of history led to a rounded exposition of historical materialism. He undertook a critical examination of political economy and revealed the actual means of capitalist exploitation of wage labor.