POSC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 29: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Class Conflict, Wage Labour
22 Dec 2018
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Marx takes a look at history, analyzes it, and then it uses that knowledge to make assumptions about the future. Reconciling things that seem on the surface to being contradictory. This is how you discover true reality. Hegel focuses on three levels of human activity to find this larger reason: family, civil society, and the state. The state is in charge of equality- hegel. The state connects with rousseau"s idea of moral freedom. The goals of the state are superior to anything the individual may want; world-historical nation state- world- spirit works through a government vehicle to lead the rest of the world to freedom and justice. Marx accepted hegel"s assertion that history is the march towards universal. Marx adds materialism to the mix freedom and justice. Marx determines that the underlying driving force behind history is economics : h: world spirit - m economics and nation state = m.
