%0 Journal Article
%@ 0960-8788
%A McNulty, Jacob
%D 2023
%F discovery:10166722
%I Taylor & Francis
%J British Journal for the History of Philosophy
%K Hegel, Marx, poverty, justice, philosophy of right
%N 3
%P 491-512
%T Class-struggle in the rational state: proto-marxist ideas in Hegel’s account of poverty
%U https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10166722/
%V 31
%X 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.
%Z This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions.