Your larger project seems to be aimed explaining how Hegelian readings of Marx, starting with Engels, have had major philosophical and political problems for working class politics. When did you start to see problems with dialectical materialism?
I began to read Hegel back in the 1970s, but when I started a degree course in Philosophy — which was incidentally delivered largely by leading Fregeans and Wittgensteinians, who introduced me to Analytic Philosophy — I very soon began to reject not just Hegel but all forms of traditional Philosophy as little other than “houses of cards”, to paraphrase Wittgenstein.
More here.
P.S. Her website has perhaps the worst design of all time (considering this is 2013, not 1991).
Perverse Egalitarianism 
Yes, I suck at web design — but not, I hope at philosophy (in Wittgenstein’s sense of that word).
We all have our shortcomings, of course…