A CONTRIBUTION TO THE CRITIQUE OF

HEGEL'S PHILOSOPHY OF RIGHT

Introduction

by Karl Marx

Deutsch-Franzosische Jahrbucher_

February, 1844

For Germany, the criticism of religion has been essentially completed, and the criticism of religion is the prerequisite of all criticism. The profane existence of error is compromised as soon as its heavenly oratio pro aris et focis ["speech for the altars and hearths"] has been refuted. Man, who has found only the reflection of...