Advocates for those ideas hoped to benefit both current and future generations in much the same way as did communists, and on the whole I think human governance has improved as a result of all these efforts in aggregate over the last thousand years.
That sounds doubtful to me. Hegelian ideas about the nature of history are an important part of communism and part of how communist thinkers thought their actions will have effects on the far future.
Just because you observe that people who argued for ending slavery had positive longterm effects doesn’t imply that those longterm effects were central to how those people thought about the issue.
That sounds doubtful to me. Hegelian ideas about the nature of history are an important part of communism and part of how communist thinkers thought their actions will have effects on the far future.
Just because you observe that people who argued for ending slavery had positive longterm effects doesn’t imply that those longterm effects were central to how those people thought about the issue.