The Syntax of Violence. Between Hegel and Marx

This article aims to show that the theory of violence in Marx and Engels is driven by a conceptual syntax which can be found in two important chapters of Hegel's Science of Logic ('Actuality' and 'Teleology'). These categories are the timeless schemata of the appearance of historical violence in Hegel's Outlines of the Philosophy of Right. However it is possible to find in Marx's writing on violence a sort Of counter-movement that cannot be inscribed in the process of the becoming-subject of substance.