Method: Dialectics and Abstraction

From Capital, Volume 1 by Karl Marx
Marx claims to invert Hegel's dialectic, extracting the 'rational kernel' from the 'mystical shell'; the method proceeds from abstract categories (commodity) to concrete totality.
Vol. I, Afterword to 2nd German Edition
With him [Hegel] it is standing on its head. It must be turned right side up again, if you would discover the rational kernel within the mystical shell.
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Vol. I, Preface to 1st Edition

'The power of abstraction must replace' microscopes and chemical reagents in analyzing economic forms.

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