How could Feuerbach be Hegelian and yet anti-dialectical?

[heiss93]

Perhaps someone familiar with the origins of Marxist philosophy could help clarify this for me. Marx criticized Feuerbach for jettisoning both the rational kernel and the idealistic nonsense in Hegel indiscriminately. Marx accuses F. of returning to the old mechanistic French materialism of the 18th century. But on the other hand Feuerbach is a Left-Hegelian philosopher, or at the very least strongly indebted to Hegel. His Essence of Christianity is basically just a fleshing out of the logical implications of Hegel's Lectures on Religion. So how is it possible to be Hegelian without being dialectical, when it seems to be at the heart of his method? I know in the 20th century GA Cohen attempted to phrase the Hegelian philosophy of history in non-dialectical terms, was Feuerbach perhaps doing the same thing? Mainly using non-Hegelian methodology to illustrate the basic Hegelian theory of history?

[Rosa Lichtenstein]

Because he was confused.

But he made huge steps in the right direction rejecting the dialectic, since it derived from the same source as religious affectation.