I thought cypherpunks was created to discuss the revolutionary effect crypto-anarchist infrastructure would have on all existing philosophers & kings. Why ’ Coderpunks ’ was hived off for the techno-bores. This impression only survived three months - once I got on the actual thing ( Aug 2001 ) “Where did Hegel get his ideas from?” It is getting too far away from the main purpose of this blog to attempt to answer that in any detail but if a one-word answer is possible the answer is “Plato”. Plato’s Republic with its ideal of a polity ruled by “philosopher kings” has always had a lot of appeal to Leftists – who mentally elect themselves as the philosopher kings concerned – so it should be no surprise that Hegel liked Plato too. http://marxwords.blogspot.com/2005_01_01_marxwords_archive.html