The Doctrine of Being. Quality Being; Determinate
Being; Being-for-self. Quantity Pure Quantity; Magnitude (Quantum); Degree. Measure The Doctrine of Essence. Essence as Ground of Existence. Identity—Difference—Ground; Existence; The Thing. Appearance. The World of Appearance; Content and Form; Relation. Actuality. Relationship of Substantiality; Relationship of Causality; Reciprocal Action. The Doctrine of the Notion. The Subjective Notion; The Notion; The Judgement; The Syllogism. The Object. Mechanism; Chemism; Teleology. The Idea. Life; Cognition; The Absolute Idea.
The concept (cognition) reveals the es- sence (the law of causality, identity, difference, etc) in Being (in immediate phenomena)—such is actually the gen- eral course of all human cogni- tion (of all science) in general. Such is the course also of natural sci- ence and political economy [and history]. Insofar Hegel’s dialectic is a generalisation of the history of thought. To trace this more concretely and in greater detail in the history of the sep- arate sciences seems an extraordinarily rewarding task. In logic, the history of thought must , by and large, coin- cide with the laws of thinking.

It is stikingly evident that Hegel some- times passes from the abstract to the con- crete (Sein [1] (abstract)— Dasein [2] (con- crete)—Fürsichsein [3] ) and sometimes the other way round (the Subjective Notion— the Object—Truth (the Absolute Idea)). Is not this inconsistency of an ideal- ist (what Marx called the “Ideenmystik” [4] in Hegel?) Or are there deeper reasons? (e.g., Being = Nothing —the idea of Be- coming, of development). First of all im- pressions flash by , then Something emerges, —afterwards the concepts of quality # (the determination of the thing or the phe- nomenon) and quantity are developed. After that study and reflection direct thought to abstract “Sein” only as a mo- ment in πάντα ρεϊ [5] cognition of identity—of difference—of Ground—of the Essence versus the Pheno- menon—of causality, etc. All these mo- ments (steps, stages, processes) of cognition move in the direction from the subject to the object, being tested in practice and arriving through this test at truth (= the Absolute Idea).

# Quality and sensation (Empfindung) are one and the same, says Feuerbach. The very first and most familiar to us is sen- sation, and in it these is inevitably also quality ....

If Marx did not leave behind him a “ Logic ” (with a capital letter), he did leave the logic of Capital , and this ought to be utilised to the full in this question. In Capital , Marx applied to a single science logic, dialectics and the theory of knowl- edge of materialism [three words are not needed: it is one and same thing] which has taken everything valuable in Hegel and developed it further.

The history of capitalism and the anal- ysis of the concepts summing it up.

The beginning—the most simple, ordi- nary, mass, immediate “Being”: the single commodity (“Sein” in political economy). The analysis of it as a social relation. A double analysis, deductive and inductive —logical and historical (forms of value). Testing by facts or by practice respec- tively, is to be found here in each step of the analysis.

| Cf. Concerning the quesiton of Essence versus Appearance |
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| — price and value — demand and supply versus Wert (= krystallisierte Arbeit [6] ) —wages and the price of labour power. |