Hegel's Philosophy of Right is one of the great works of ethical and political philosophy – one which some put on a par with Plato's Republic, or see as exceeding Hobbes's Leviathan. It is said also that in the early twentieth century two schools of Hegelian philosophy faced each other: the right-Hegelians in the guise of the fascists, and the left-Hegelians in the guise of the Marxists and communists. There is something to this, but to imply that Hegel is to blame for both would be an indictment too far. Yet the contrast does precipitate thought. There is an unbroken line of continuity between Hegel and the young Hegelians, hence a line of inheritance from Marx, though the line is also one of coarsening the dialectic and its more finessed possibilities. In recent decades, there have been many efforts to take the sting out of the accusation that Hegel was an ideological canonizer of the Prussian state of his time, and a more sympathetically liberal Hegel has been offered for consideration, sometimes in a manner too amnesiac about the more extreme implications hidden in Hegel's way of thinking, implications sometimes drawn out into historical reality. Hegel has been reclaimed by the professors.