Reversing Hegel’s famous maxim, I noted as long ago as 1967 that “in a world that has really been turned upside down, truth is a moment of falsehood.” In the intervening years, this principle has encroached upon each specific domain, without exception. Guy Debord, Commentaires sur la société du spectacle §17
We are assuredly partisans of the Hegelian dialectical method (without confounding it with the moral or political positions of Hegel), and not of Plato’s dialectic. It isn’t Plato that the history of modern revolution has “set back on its feet.” Guy Debord, Correspondance
For Hegel the point was no longer to interpret the world, but to interpret the transformation of the world. But because he limited himself to merely interpreting that transformation, Hegel only represents the philosophical culmination of philosophy. He seeks to understand a world that develops by itself. Guy Debord, La société du spectacle §76
Hegel’s paradoxical stance—his subordination of the meaning of all reality to its historical culmination while at the same time proclaiming that his own system represents that culmination—flows from the simple fact that this thinker of the bourgeois revolutions of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries sought in his philosophy only a reconciliation with the results of those revolutions. Guy Debord, La société du spectacle §76