In What Sense Marx Criticized Hegel's Concept of Civil Society:A Textual Analysis Based on Marx's Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right

As people's understandings of civil society are asynchronous historically and logically,Marx and Hegel came up with different views of civil society.As Hegel had an in-depth understanding of the double meaning of English civil society deeply,his concept of civil society represents such a logic:privilege—coequality—privilege sublating coequality.In Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right(1843),influenced by the traditional political privilege of civil society as well as Feuerbach's philosophical methodology,Marx proposed the view of privileged civil society with humanism as the framework and people's sovereignty as his content in criticizing Hegel,which means that Marx only criticized the first link of Hegel's logic from the perspective of political privilege,so he had not refuted Hegel completely,which is directly attributable to his lack of classical economics knowledge at that time.Although his lack of classical economics knowledge plunged Marx into bourgeoisie ideology of right,his attention on modern civil society proved a turning point that marked his turn to realism and started his road to search for historical materialism.