The Holy Family’s Critical Logic Of Young Hegelians

The Holy Family was the first work co-authored by Marx and Engels.In the context of the founding and development of Marxism,The Holy Family is an important part of the transformation of Marx and Engels from revolutionary democrats to communists,from idealists to materialists and from admirers of Hegel and Feuerbach to founders of the materialist conception of history,and is an important theoretical text in the theoretical system of Marxism that has a pioneering role.The theoretical claims in this text are closely linked to the Paris Manuscripts,the Outline on Feuerbach and the German Ideology,not only in time,but also in the progressive refinement of their ideas,which together form the foundational text of historical materialism.At the same time,because The Holy Family is both a transitional and a polemical text,some of the immaturity and imperfection of the ideas in the text have been criticized and are therefore less striking than in other works of the same period.It is important to note,however,that Marx and Engels already took a materialist standpoint in their critique of the Young Hegelians in The Holy Family,and many of the ideas they set out have the beginnings of a materialist conception of history,and the logic of their critique of the Young Hegelians represented by Bruno Powell and Edgar Powell is clearer,which shows that Marx and Engels had a certain grasp of the new materialism they were about to create This shows that Marx and Engels already had a certain grasp of the shape of the new materialism they were going to create,and were gradually refining the construction of their ideas in the course of comparison and debate with all sides.This article firstly gives a brief account of the background to the writing of The Holy Family,analyzing the ideological influences on Marx before writing The Holy Family and the consistency of Marx’s and Engels’ s ideological transformation,followed by a brief overview of the textual structure of The Holy Family and its internal logic.Next,Marx’s and Engels’ s critique of the Hegelian philosophy of the Younger Generation is elaborated on,layer by layer,in terms of epistemology,history and the masses,and the critical logic of the entire text is analyzed through the progressive evolution of each viewpoint.Finally,the relevance of the critique of the Young Hegelians in The Holy Family is analyzed.Although The Holy Family is a polemical work,with Marx and Engels’ exposition of various points of view spread more sporadically throughout the book,the clarity of the organization of the chapters of The Holy Family in general is undeniable.The logic of their critique of the Young Hegelians follows the following sequence: first,the critique of the Young Hegelians’ discursive idealism,the core of which is the revelation of the secrets of discursive philosophy;second,the critique of the Young Hegelians’ idealistic view of history;third,the critique of the Young Hegelians’ heroic view of history.In this regard,Marx and Engels take "fruit" and "fruit" as examples,and start to analyse the wrong roots of the Young Hegelians’ discursive philosophy from the epistemological level,and gradually reveal to the world the nature,reality and danger of the Young Hegelians’ idealistic view of history,which is based on an inverted epistemology.He then proceeds to criticize the Young Hegelian philosophy of discourse for establishing the opposition between the "spirit" and the "masses",and for denigrating the "mass view" of the masses.In this logical line,Marx and Engels wrote about "What is ownership and the Secret of Paris,the emancipation of the Jews,the French Revolution,and the history of materialism in Britain and France,which led to a more systematic and profound understanding of civil society,class,the masses and the practice of material production.