What Marx Really Meant G D H cole ( from the Series of Notes taken by Pattabiraman) (Notes of Ch 1… 2 nd speaks about Capitalism) From Hegelian dialectic Marx built his materilistic dialectic The world we have to study has grown directly out of the world marx studied.. many of his qns are our qns too One should Find his method more helpful than his doctrine No sense was stronger in Marx than the sense of change.. only idiots learn The manifesto and capital by heart and conceive themselves to have unlocked the secrets of the capitalist system as it now exists Societies are constantly changing collections of individual men and women Man cannot breathe the breath of life into a dead body, or give concreteness to admittedly an asbtraction If we are setting out to understand a thing, we must look directly at the thing itself, and not primarily at men's ideas about it.. The thing is prior to idea men form of it, but ideas f