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Fegelnator
4th January 2015, 13:18
Hi, I was wondering if anyone might be of assistance with a school project me and my friends are working on.

In the modern sense, the existence of the Estates' assembly is the political existence of civil society, the guarantee of its political existence. To question the existence of the Estates' assembly is to question the existence of the state. Whereas patriotism, the essence of the legislature, finds its guarantee in independent private property according to Hegel, so the existence of the legislature finds its guarantee in the privileges of the Corporations.
LeftCrusade™: Zur kritik der hegelschen rechtsphilosophy
LeftCrusade™: Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right
Karl Marx, 1843

Could anyone supply me with the page this quote came from? My friend needs the info for a commentary :).

Thank you very much.

Invader Zim
4th January 2015, 14:41
Well, there are plenty of editions and published collections of Marx's work that have been produced that will, naturally, have different pagination and contain different essays. One I found is below. Given you are at school and may not be familiar with full scholarly referencing techniques I have written out the citation in full for you. if you use/quote any other material it would be wise to follow this referencing style (broadly based on the Chicago manual of style, standard for humanities scholarly journals and monographs).

Karl Marx, 'Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right', in Loyd David Easton, Kurt H. Guddat (eds., trans.), Writings of the Young Marx on Philosophy and the Right, rev., (Hackett Publishing, 1967, 1997), p. 191.

Available online here:

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=uzTZYEUZ9HcC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false

Fegelnator
6th January 2015, 12:29
Thank you very much! It's a very big help. I do have to say I haven't been giving Hegel as much attention as I should have, it might help me gain a better understanding of Stirner. Ah well.

That being said (and I'm very sorry about this) does anyone know the page number of this quote? My pal can't find it with the control-f function on Google Books and he says he needs it.

Thus Hegel is everywhere reduced to giving the political state a precarious actuality in a relationship of dependence upon another, rather than describing it as the highest, completely existing actuality of social existence; he is reduced to having it find its true existence in the other sphere rather than describing it as the true existence of the other sphere. The political state everywhere needs the guarantee of spheres lying outside it. It is not actualised power, but supported impotence. It is not the power over these supports, but the power of the support. The support is the seat of power.

Same book as before :).