The ‘Subject-Predicate Reversal’: an Excursus on Marx’s Critique of Hegel’s Doctrine of the State

Hegel Decoder: A Reply to Smith's 'Reply'

“…One could just as well use exactly the same 'method' to prove the 'necessity' of, say, the Supreme Soviet or of the Pope, just as Hegel has used it in his 'philosophical science of nature' to 'prove' the 'necessity' of vertebrae and of the sun. Accordingly, what I have in fact, following Marx, claimed regarding Hegelian political philosophy is that it is essentially mystifying and apologetic 106. This is so regardless of the specific set of political institutions or arrangements to which the 'dialectic method' happens to get'applied'.…”