Clearly no working class movement ever came about that was able to do what Marx was hoping for.

Hegel's theory of recognition is basically derived from Fichte, who is its real author.

Adam Smith was aware of the way that economic interests could have a distorting and destructive effect both on the market and on politics.

Kant is not saying - about freedom or any other subject - anything of the form: "Not-p but we must assume that p." That's close to self-contradictory, like Moore's paradox: "p, but I don't believe that p".

Fichte is a necessary step to both Hegel and Marx.

Kant says that we may regard ourselves as legislator of the moral law, and consider ourselves as its author, but not that we are legislators or authors of the law.

Capitalism has proven to be a far more terrible system than Marx could ever bring himself to imagine. Those who are so deluded as to find something good in it, or even feel loyalty toward it, are its most pitiful victims.