So , I am saying that Hegel's concept of the Idea has been overtaken by history, and this is reflected in the collapse of the Soviet Union, the crisis of social democracy, in the fragmentation of science and philosophy - and a new principle is required to take humanity past its present crisis. This is not quite the same thing as saying that the world is intelligible . I believe that the development of logic, mathematics and science during the past few decades has precisely and definitively proved that it is not . The next round of global economic rationalisation will have no more success in regulating against global economic catastrophes than all previous rounds over the past 200 years. The next generation of computers will not learn to understand jokes.
People make their own history.
So , I am saying that Hegel's concept of the world of nature and society as determinations of a single World Mind blocks the path to understanding that we have to make our own history. The organised working class cannot be reconciled to the state of property owners, since in this state they have no property and no rights. To reject the world as we find it, it regarded as the definition of insanity. As anyone who has worked in an organisation knows, there comes a point when internal conflicts grow beyond the stage of sullen resistance to the point of the emergence of opposition and ultimately to a point where the two principles, the opposing factions, cannot be reconciled within the organisation and the only road to truth is split . This is where Marx the communist parts company with Hegel the conciliator .