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On Marx's tombstone are engraved words of his famous Eleventh Thesis on Feuerbach: 'The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point, however, is to change it.' Marx certainly had Hegel in mind as one of 'the philosophers', and it is undeniable that Marx wished to change the world far more radically than Hegel dit; Hegel could none the less have pointed out that the underlying idea of Marx's words can be found in the Phenomenology, at the point where the self-conscious being finds that to realize itself fully it must set itself about changing the external world and making it its own.