The point Karl Marx’s was trying to make by saying “he stood Hegel on his head” is a way to remind Hegel that idealism thinking needs to be rethought. Karl Marx believed in materialistic thinking, meaning he focused on the facts and history of what has happened, while Georg Hegel believed in thinking more of ideals that could be. Marx’s commentary of Hegel is to remind the world that it is not necessarily better to think of the ideas instead of what is fact. The dictionary definition of an idealist is “a person who cherishes or pursues high or noble principles, purposes, goals, etc”. To Marx, this way of thinking is too broad and basically useless. What Marx’s focus was on the individual. He believed everything is already decided and people
