Hegelian Recognition and Incels

Here's a collection of excerpts from his works on the individual: <a href="https://libcom.org/library/marx-individualist-communist-excerpts-individual-karl-marx" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://libcom.org/library/marx-individualist-communist-excerpts-individual-karl-marx</a> In The German Ideology, he writes "Only at this (post-capitalist) stage does self-activity coincide with material life, which corresponds to the development of individuals into complete individuals and the casting-off of all natural limitations. The transformation of labour into self-activity corresponds to the transformation of the earlier limited intercourse into the intercourse of individuals as such. With the appropriation of the total productive forces through united individuals, private property comes to an end.”

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Interesting! Also I was very surprised to have heard on the “why equality is an unhelpful political goal” the bit about Marxism being for the development of the individual, as that was the first time I had heard that aspect of marxism. Could you direct me to where I could learn more about this aspect of the philosophy? Thanks!

I think there are similarities, although I can't speak in detail because I'm not well-versed in Eastern philosophy. Both the Hegelian and the Buddhist approach are holistic, they see the individual as emanating from a larger coherent whole, and see the goal of ethics partially as returning to or recognizing this whole. In general, the current dominant view of people as atomized individuals is relatively recent. Plato, for example, made sense of the individual as part of the state, a larger whole, and there is actually no grammatical way of talking about individual rights in Ancient Greek (in the sense of "I have a right to X or Y", although it's possible to say "It is right to do X or Y"). The cultural spirit that Hegel emerged in wished to return to this ancient ideal of harmony between individual and community that seemed to be threatened by the emergence of liberalism

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Hello Cuck (Really wish there was a better way to refer to you), do you see any contrast or similarity between the Hegelian view of existence and individuality, with a buddhist or eastern religious approach? Obviously, western society is strongly based on the Cartesian take on being, and I believe a lot of the alienation and loneliness experienced is a result of it, as the moment you consider yourself an individual, you separate yourself from things such as family, land and lineage (crucial aspects to a healthy life). Not only do you sever several bonds but since you don't see yourself reflected in your land, family, and lineage, you must enter this process of finding recognition in other places, a process that can result in the slave master dialectic which you described, but also a tyrannical, insatiable desire to impose yourself on others. On the other hand, the eastern approach to being, seems to me, a lot less focused on the individual (I recently discovered there is no word for individual in Sanskrit). Although my understanding of eastern culture and philosophy is very limited, I imagine there is a bigger emphasis placed on the things I mentioned before, family, land and lineage (especially in rural regions where globalization hasn't diffused western culture). Anyways I was wondering if you had any thoughts on this and specifically if the Hegelian view of being speaks on this.