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Hegel's notes on the critique of political economy

From the very beginning of his philosophical thought, Hegel demonstrated time and again his interest for the questions of political economy. In his earliest writings on religion, politics and economics, Hegel expressed his concern for one important topic which was to play a vital role in his later works: the phenomenon of private property. As we shall see, one of the issues analysed in many of his works is the antagonism between wealth and poverty in modern society. In this sense, Hegel, long before Marx, emphasised the problem of transition from feudalism to capitalism and the dehumanizing effects of industrialisation. This paper features three chapters, the first of which deals with Hegel’s analysis of private property, industrialisation, and class antagonism. The second then turns to Hegel’s attitudes toward the French Revolution, as well as his thoughts on the modern state and the transition from feudalism to capitalism. Finally, in the third chapter, along with Hegel’s Philosophy of Right, we point to his effort in emphasizing that extreme and increasing poverty is not an accidental phenomenon but is in fact endemic to modern commodity-producing society. In doing so, we return to the British political-economic lore that Hegel studied in the works of Ferguson, Steuart, and Smith, but also in English newspapers and journals which he regularly read

labour ; private property ; poverty ; universalism ; the state ; French Revolution ; Hegel

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