The Union of Egoists

Hegel and Marx both want to bring back the universal within the sphere of the particular, so that our activity actually becomes an activity for the benefit of all. Both are concerned about the negative consequences of a society that's basically constructed on the basis of an opposition between particular interests and universal interests. But in Hegel's mind, that doesn't mean eliminating the political structures of the state. Whereas obviously for Marx, it does because Marx thinks that the very, if you like, the capitalist economic structure and the mechanism of the state is not just that opposition that's the problem. The political structures themselves are an expression of the very alienation within the capitalist production and exchange,. whereas Hegel doesn't think