German philosophy from the late 18th century to the first half of the 19th century, the immediate theoretical source of Marxist philosophy. Its representatives are Kant, Fichte, Schelling, Hegel and Feuerbach. The then Germany was on the eve of a bourgeois democratic revolution. On the one hand, the newborn German bourgeoisie yearned for the capitalist system and was revolutionary; on the other hand, it was extremely weak. As a theoretical expression of the interests and aspirations of the German bourgeoisie, the classical German philosophy had a duality. On the one hand, it expressed the strong aspiration of the German bourgeoisie to bring about a political and economic revolution by dialectics. On the other hand, its revolutionary nature was wrapped in an abstract speculative idealist system; even Feuerbach’s materialist philosophy was far from reality and preached “love of all mankind” with abstract “human nature”. . .
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