Marx, but Communism/marxism is idiotic just like anarchism because both try to repeal a law of nature or at least a virtual law of nature. Any philosophy that tries to repeal a law of nature is doom to failure as we have seen everywhere Communism has been tried. The law that Communists try to repeal is that people work for reward and the more reward they get the harder they work. Efforts by Hegelians and Marxists to create a socialist utopia without incentives to work and produce, any private property, or possibility for profit are, by the nature of human action, doomed to failure. :
“Egoism [self-interest]… will never be argued out of a person, as little as a cat can be talked out of her inclination for mice.”--Schopenhauer
The antidote to Communism and Socialism is Schopenhauer. Most people are influenced by Hegel , instead of Schopenhauer, because I feel Schopenhauer was a greater genius so it is hard for people to understand or get their head around Schopenhauer even though he was lucid as f*ck in his writings. In contrast Hegel was opaque or not-lucid at all in his writings but people claim to understand Hegel more because most people are not 'smart'. Philosophers like Hegel who construct systems that encompass the Noumenon do so with what are essentially meaningless abstract concepts, like “Absolute Spirit,” “The Good,” and “Perfection of Being.”
“The greatest effrontery [to Kant] in serving up sheer nonsense, in scrabbling together senseless and maddening webs of words, such as had previously been heard only in madhouses, finally appeared in Hegel.” --Schopenhauer
Hegel’s reply would probably be, “So what if I generate a lot of verbiage without really saying anything ? Only power matters."
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