被马克思誉为“我们的哲学家”的约瑟夫·狄慈根,曾经不依靠马克思和恩格斯,“甚至不依靠黑格尔也发现了”唯物辩证法(《马克思恩格斯选集》第4卷,第239页)。这一方面说明,辩证唯物主义哲学产生于十九世纪中叶前后是有其客观的、历史的必然性的;另方面,也“表明了工人可以独立地掌握辩证唯物主义,即掌握马克思的哲学”(《列宁全集》第19卷,第61页)。列宁号召工人,“要想成为有觉悟的人,应该读一读约·狄慈根的著 Joseph D. Tikgen, who was hailed by Marx as “our philosopher,” did not rely on Marx and Engels and “even discovered Hegel’s materialistic dialectics” (Selected Works of Marx and Engels, vol. 4, p. 239 ). On the one hand, dialectical materialist philosophy has its objective and historical necessity around the mid-nineteenth century; on the other hand, it also shows that workers can master dialectical materialism independently, that is, to master Marx’s philosophy The Complete Works of Lenin, Vol. 19, p. 61). Lenin called for the workers, "To be enlightened, read about Di Cigen.