Hegel engages in critical political economy. What does that mean? It might mean many things. Marx was a critical political economist and held that capitalism was self-destructive and antithetical to human interests. He anticipated a revolution, whereby the modern capitalist economy would be swept away. Hegel, like Marx was critical of the modern market economy, but he did not advocate its forcible removal. He urged that the modern market economy should be monitored and subject to interventions on the part of government and social institutions, such as estates and corporations, to ameliorate its operation. Hegel was critical of aspects of the modern economy but did not advocate wholesale change.