Iván Szelényi continues Yale's Foundations of Modern Social Theory (SOCY 151) by tracing Marx's break with Hegel and the Young Hegelians. He reviews Marx's theory of alienation, then contrasts Hegel's claim that French civil servants formed a universal class with Marx's counterclaim that the state only appears universal. Szelényi walks through Marx's theory of exploitation, arguing that workers, as the fully alienated class, occupy the true universal position, before turning to Marx's response to Feuerbach in the Theses on Feuerbach, including the famous eleventh thesis on changing rather than merely interpreting the world. Chapters cover On the Jewish Question, the Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right, and the emergence of historical materialism. Recorded at Yale in Fall 2009, the lecture is lecture ten in the course sequence.