Marx transforms Hegelian dialectics by grounding contradiction and conceptual movement in material social relations, commodity form, political economy, and historically specific capitalist structures.
Lenin’s return to Hegel reveals how contradiction, mediation, totality, and categorical movement shape Marx’s materialist critique of capitalist social relations.
Idealism, materialism, and dialectics intersect across ontology, knowledge, history, mediation, contradiction, and the philosophical relation between thought and reality.
