Add to ORKGKarl Marx’s dialectical materialism is considered to be an important contribution to the continental philosophical tradition. It claims that the objective truth refers to the knowledge of an object, which perfectly reflects the object. For dialectical materialism truth is objective but only in the ontological and epistemological sense. This article demonstrates that for Marx, everything bears the stamp of inevitable negation, disappearance, and nothing can withstand this except the continuous process of emerging and dying away itself, and the endless advance from lower to the higher. This constant process of renewal, vanishing the old phenomena and emergence of a new one, is what negation means; the replacing of the old by the new means tha...