Hegel, Marx and Sustainable Development: A Study in Incompatible, Pt.1
The ease with which a number of popular contemporary conservatives identify ontology and politics of sustainable development (aka ‘degrowth’, ‘The Great Reset’, ‘green politics’, etc.) with Marxism and its derivations is comparable only to their ignorance of the original philosophical assumptions of Karl Marx and their roots in classical German philosophy; ignorance that, in a peculiar sense, appears so blatant that it seems almost wilful. To set the record straight, in the series of podcasts we’ll outline the rift existing between these two, modern and postmodern, totalitarian projects, based on their root assumptions. In the first episode we sketch the basic propositions of Hegel’s metaphysics that inspired Marx’ project.
Listen of Spotify:
Listen on Youtube:
Branko Malić
Kali Tribune runs on reader’s support. If you found the above informative and/or enlightening, consider supporting us.
Very interesting point about German philosophy being about freedom vs necessity. I would say that’s true for most of philosophy after Descartes.
Hegel’s end of history is truly a sign of how close man was coming to self-deification without divorcing himself from the Christian eschatology he’s basing this on. A gross and vulgar worldview in my opinion. Whereas, Nietzsche was able to divorce himself from Christianity and produce a secular humanist figure that is able to become a deity by transvaluing all values.
This is why Schopenhauer will always be superior to Hegel. His philosophy was still grounded in truth where man is not regarded as a deity able to control history, but is rather regarded as a part of the creation subject to forces beyond his control.
On a side note, a comic on the topic of Schopenhauer vs Hegel.
https://existentialcomics.com/comic/40