Dialectics by Command

In concern for the hungry and enslaved I became directly convinced That Kant, Feuerbach, and Hegel had erred—That their understanding failed them. Though I had as yet read not a line of theirs, I firmly knew that, well, as a matter of fact They had gotten it all wrong. Alas! These old men, they didn't know, It was beyond them, They hadn't looked around them! And at twenty years, the spirit of doubt Did not hover over us. Credulous beyond measure, I had already accumulated a solid capital Of readymade truths, taken on faith. Assiduously learned by heart, Solidly inscribed in the records, They comforted me and guarded me Like a stone wall.