Scholars have recently argued that Hegel posited international recognition as a necessary feature of relations. My main effort in this article is to disprove point. Specifically, I show since rejected the notion an legal system, he must hold depends on arbitrary will individual states. To pinpoint Hegel’s position, offer close reading intricate formulations from final paragraphs Philosophy Righ...

labour. Later on, a long section of the first chapter derives various ‘forms of value’ as surface expressions of this congealed abstract labour. These expressions have ‘defects’ which lead, in a dialectical development, to more satisfactory forms. Some Marx scholars try to ignore these Hegelianisms, others consider them an important part of Marx’s argument. Lenin belonged to the latter camp; he...