I should probably have entitled this "Marx and Hegel," since I do not wish to attempt a study of the influence of Hegel through Marx, but rather of the position taken by Marx with regard to Hegel. What follows, then, is first of all a study of something in Marx himself. True, one says a good deal about Hegel also in asserting that there is no Marx without Hegel, without the problematic of Hegel. And I should recall in passing that this assertion — no Marx without or outside of Hegel — is completely denied by those who insist on a radical break in the course of Marx's intellectual career. According to this school of thought, there was a time when Marx was effectively dominated by Hegelian problematics; and then there was in Marx's mature years, beginning more or less with The German Ideology, a time at which he escaped definitively from those problematics, from the 'siren" who, he told us, earlier haunted him, and whose charms he could not rid himself of.