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>>4640162

>Plebian revolultions and ideologies are all the same

Said the ideologue

>>4640168

>Hegel did for Truth what Darwin did for Biology: he made it "evolve". Hegel believed in a pantheistic god where god was embodied by World History, that is, the history of humanity as it "progresses" through time, and that as this history unfolds itself God evolves; truth becomes more true, civilization becomes more civilized, humanity becomes more humane, etc.


Stopped reading right there, because this is just plain factually wrong. Hegel undertood history not as "progressing" but as "accumulating", social conditions and ideas are what make the Zeitgeist of a time, not beleif in "progress".

Similarly not even Marx beleived that a preletarieat revolution was inevitable , it was simply the material conditions (economy) that make it inevitable as such. You probably read in a crappy book by Popper that Hegel or Marx were dealing only with metaphysics, when that is simply not the case. As philosophers of history they do not deal merely with pre-existing conditions but also with the reasons that bring said change in society.

I suggest you read Hegel because you don't like someone who has gone over his texts.