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A 6 page paper comparing and contrasting the views of Marx and Hegel on the role and usefulness of the state. Each sees the state as being necessary in the beginning, but that is where their views depart from each other. The natural conclusion of the evolution of the state in Marx’s view is that it ceases to exist, while Hegel believes that the state grows in both size and significance over time. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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6 pages (~225 words per page)
File: CC6_KSmarxHegSt.rtf
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to Marxs view of capitalism and ownership of production, one economist quipped that even though we now know that Marx was mostly wrong, he had some ideas that prevented him
from being wholly wrong. The same sentiment can be applied to Marxs views of the role of the state. Hegel died more
than a decade before Marx published his critique of Hegels Philosophy of the Right, so there was no opportunity for debate or even for rebuttal. Both have less relevance
in todays more conservative environment constrained by the realities of public finance, but it is Marx that remains furthest from and most left of center.
Marxs Idealism Marx was not the idealist as we tend to envision idealists in that there was nothing romantic or
utopian in his views. He sought not to try to make people feel any better about themselves or the world in which they lived aside from empowering them to
believe that they truly were the center of the universe. Individuals could not hold that place of course, for there can be only
one true center of anything. Too many individuals, too much individualism created far too many "centers" for Marxs theories to address. Instead, individuals needed to be lumped together
in collectivism so that the collective whole could then form that center. There was no place in Marxs view of the world for
anything that could lead to any type of individualism or even lend support to individual views on anything. It was in the introduction to his Critique of Hegels Philosophy
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