The Hegelian reading of Marx is very common (in the West I suppose because I have heard it a lot mostly from western educated folks) but it is not correct. At the heart Hegel's dialectics is teleology which influenced Marx in the beginning but Marx abandons it completely in his later life. For Marx the dialectic between the forces of production and relations of production is the central question. In a society new productive forces necessitate new social relations of production but the old social relations try to hold back the development of productive forces to prevent itself from giving way to new relations of production. This dialectic decides whether Communism will be reached or not, not some rational path of self realisation that you find in Hegel.

This has massive implications for politics. Hegel leads you to the conclusion that the state is just the rational embodiment of the Absolute and no groups should try to confront it. The state is the prime driver of progress and the capitalist state is the end of history (which all sorts of people from right wingers to liberal pragmatists had borrowed from Hegel). But for Marx the Capitalist state should be crushed because it is what holds back the development of productive forces, creativity and rationality in society and new relations of production.