McNulty, Jacob;
(2023)
Class-struggle in the rational state: proto-marxist ideas in Hegel’s account of poverty.
British Journal for the History of Philosophy
, 31
(3)
pp. 491-512.
10.1080/09608788.2022.2162844.
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Abstract
For Hegel, poverty is not simply a misfortune, but, rather, a kind of injury inflicted on one class by another. Though Hegel rejects Marx’s theory of class, he nevertheless anticipates Marx’s idea of the exploitation of one class by another. How, though, do we align this proto-marxist dichotomy between rich and poor with Hegel’s official theory of class; his tripartite theory of estates? I argue that Hegel’s wealthy are chiefly found in the ‘mercantile’ estate, and that they are those intellectual labourers who manage, oversee, and organize the production process.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Class-struggle in the rational state: proto-marxist ideas in Hegel’s account of poverty |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1080/09608788.2022.2162844 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1080/09608788.2022.2162844 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | Hegel, Marx, poverty, justice, philosophy of right |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Dept of Philosophy |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10166722 |
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