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The sources for the essays, lectures, and interviews included here are listed below. Selections are reprinted courtesy of Vera Sacristán, unless otherwise noted. 1 It will not be possible to provide a definitive list of Sacristán’s works on any topic or question until we have the benefit of Salvador López Arnal’s complete, authoritative bibliography (currently in preparation). For the most comprehensive existing bibliography of Sacristán’s works, which was compiled before the appearance of most of his posthumously published texts and does not register many unpublished materials, see Capella 1987, as well as the addenda listed in Capella 1995.
28 The Young-Hegelian motif will not form part of the title in 1867, as it had in 1859, although it will continue to be present as part of the subtitle on the cover of Capital: A Critique of Political Economy. What Marx’s Science Owes to Its Philosophical Inspirations The best thing that Marx owes to his youthful Hegelianism and his ‘rediscovery’ of Hegel in the 1850s is the characteristic virtue of his intellectual work, that is to say, its totality [globalidad], that programme which aims at a complete comprehension of social reality, a complete comprehension of the social whole.
Marx does this without giving the matter any importance, which suggests that it was, for Marx, then something quite obvious: It is plain to me from this one note that, in his second grand opus, the fellow [Lassalle] intends to expound political economy in the manner of Hegel. 24 If this is taken literally – which would not be a good idea, since the Marx of 1858 already knows that he has to work through a great deal of empirical material – one would have to infer that doing economic science consists in criticising at great length Smith and Ricardo, so as to carry them to the point at which it is possible to expound them dialectically.