The philosophical dialectic holds that the truth of something comes-to-be through its self-negation as an instrumental condition leading to the negation of its self-negation in realizing its higher or ultimate truth. For both Marx and Lenin the Hegelian dialectic was the philosophical basis for the development of stages of historical consciousness. However, for Marx, more than for Lenin, the Hegelian dialectic was tied directly to historical materialism in the development of the forces of production as the foundation of historical consciousness.