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One of Hegel's most reviled, anti-liberal ideas is also one of his most promising: that a rational society must be divided into estates and that individuals should vote qua members of "corporations" (a "work association"). This idea is reviled because it does not assume ... 1/4
... the atomistic individual as the basic unit of society. While Hegel's affirmation of hierarchical estates/classes clearly must be rejected, his intuition tying voting blocs to work associations is confirmed by Marx, in his critique of Bakunin. 2/4
As Marx writes: "With collective ownership the so-called people's will vanishes, to make way for the real will of the cooperative." What would the will of the cooperative be if not the will of the associated producers, who represent distinct areas of social production? 3/4
In other words, instead of rejecting Hegel's anti-liberal affirmation of estates/corporations, inheritors of Marx should seek to redeem it. Hegel gets at something essential about the true structure of collective cooperation in light of the welfare of society as common good. 4/4
