>Hegel, btw, doesn't think that whatever is, is >rational in the sense that everything is always hunky >dory and this is always the best of all possible >worlds. He's not Leibniz, and he's intensely aware of >the Voltairean criticisms of that sort of Panglossian >foolishness. The least charitable reading of the real >= rational idea is that after a long period of history >in which the real wasn't rational, we have reached the >point where it finally is and history can stop now. >Marx and the Young (left) Hegelians took Hegel, or the >old (right) Hegelians to be saying something like >that. A more charitable reading is that the real is >_intelligible_, that we with the equipment of the >Logik we can make sense out of whatever is real, >without necessarily thinking it is perfect.
THIS kind of writing is why no one of the working class cares about Marx. Ken.
