"The great, basic thought," according to Engels, which dialectical materialism inherited from Hegel, was "that the world is not to be comprehended as a complex of ready-made things, but as a complex of thoughts."

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Engels actually stated that the great, basic thought dialectical materialism inherited from Hegel was that the world is not to be comprehended as a complex of ready-made things, but as a complex of processes, in which things apparently stable, no less than their mental reflections in our minds, go through an uninterrupted change of coming into being and passing away.

"The Great, Basic Thought," According to Engels, Which Dialectical Materialism